Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears a pastel small hat and pastel clothes. He has a hunchback. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Born in the west to a Weaver, Balam learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Alberich was born the youngest of three triplets. His first spouse was a Adventurer, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Being a Merchant kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

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

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 5000 cp. Banded agate (15 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His cinnamon fur is braided into rings. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep yellow.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, River isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tabaxi unity. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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 left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Military, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 20000 sp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Amber (110 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp).