Description: This woman 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 muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Thea abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. During her travels, Thea and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Thea discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Thea fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a mace on his belt. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. Zircon (40 gp).

Description: This southern woman wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a white coat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has no hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Cora was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Cora was born on a far southern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Engraver. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 330 gp. Moonstone (40 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She wears a simple brown robe with black stripes complete with hood. She has a hunchback. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and 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

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden pearl (50 gp). White pearl (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His white hair is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are white.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Barakas was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His first spouse was a Actor, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He has a large pastel mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his black robe. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length white fur. His half smiles and copper eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is content; and to end his boredom

Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has done her best to style her brown fur to look like a famous performer. Her copper eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. 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. Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Shifting never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. Her skin is flawless and her amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Mara hails from a village terrorized by illithids. In her youth she was a Guard, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger sister on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mara fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is a great chef.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 90 gp. Alexandrite (200 gp).