Description: He dresses like a well dressed Soapmaker does. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. 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 Soapmaker. He has achieved small success as a Soapmaker.

Motivation: Expand his business; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Religious, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 300 sp. Tourmaline (160 gp).

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. His orange fur is still thick. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Map Maker and was forced into it by his family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 60 gp. Silver pearl (60 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned female is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is red and very short. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Herbalist.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Military, Rich, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She uses divination through singing.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 2800 sp.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears just a grey suit. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Lance enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Lance was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He found a children's book about a Human Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a sickle on her belt. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: She wears a black broad hat and black clothes. Her purple hair is still thick. Her silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Hecat enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by a spirit.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tattered old clothes. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His silver eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is mildly Tiefling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Tiefling people; and tiefling compassion

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Hatae is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Greedy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 70 gp.