Description: He wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shortspear, but if one is not available he will default to his scimitar. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly scimitars and shortspears. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. Arnold enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born in the west. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and is pretty ugly. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Kasdeya was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student she started as a Healer, but she got bored and became a Locksmith. She has achieved small success as a Locksmith.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears her blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull white iron scale mail. Her hair is golden and curly. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. With bright black hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her violet eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Gurdis isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 2700 sp. Jet (160 gp). Black star sapphire (800 gp).

Description: She wears white trousers with violet and black striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Engong liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand her business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His black hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he's in love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. Her brass crest is knotted and matted. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, drow burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying east to reunite her family. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and revenge

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 350 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp). 2 Holy water.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longbows and crossbows. She has shaved her head bald. Her ears are large.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was taken from her home at a very young age. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Silaqui was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 sp. White pearl (160 gp).