Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. 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 a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Debt, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a green shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and blue pants. His white crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. 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: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He wears a pastel tunic with white highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length orange fur. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. While he appears to be a normal Tabaxi, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 60 pp. Amethyst (80 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His crest is scarlet and very short. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Mreksh 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 Dragonborn 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 since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a fancy violet dress. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her first spouse was a Performer, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Breastplate.

Description: An older woman who dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a green coat with blue slacks, she is not a threatening figure. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: The child of a Seamstress, who enjoyed hunting, Elysande was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bather.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to be a seamstress again

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Job, Nature, Guardian. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 2800 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). 1 Holy water.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Mercenary. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. 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, Keyleth is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Keyleth was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: She prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'7" when asserting herself. Her green crest is heavily combed to the right. She has gold eyes and a green hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Performer business.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. His golden hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Boddynock hails from a village terrorized by drow. 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 Bookbinder. He has worked as a Bookbinder like his father before him.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver pearl (120 gp).