Description: This dark-skinned female is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She wears her auburn hair down. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Joan is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Joan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She's also a talented Body Guard, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Body Guard; and expand her business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 150 gp. Sard (50 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to unite with his brother

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born into a rich family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She wears a violet coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon her head. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Oriel's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a Painter, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears a brown vest and prefers red and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He has wavy gray fur. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is mildly Tabaxi supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tabaxi conditions. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Nimble never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Sard (70 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His brown hair is long and unkept. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Beloril is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the east to a Performer, Beloril learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He became a Performer soon after.

Motivation: To be a Stableman again.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Golden pearl (100 gp). Moonstone (50 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Fletcher who has hired him part-time. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born in the west. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This dark-skinned male is dressed in earthy colors with a white and brown handkerchief worn on his left side. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He keeps his auburn hair in a flapper bob. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Animal Trainer. He has worked as a Animal Trainer like his father before him.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and to be a apothecary again

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She stands about 5'11" and is wearing a long, brown cloak. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her silver hair is lengthy. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she has a crush on the local shoemaker

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 20 gp.