Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He dresses like a well dressed Carpenter does. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His tied-back hair is auburn. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born in the east. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 160 gp. Freshwater pearl (9 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Robbie was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

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

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Armorer profession.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She tends to her Stableman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a brown broad hat and brown clothes, and a wedding ring on his right hand. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Alberich was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His first spouse was a Shepherd, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Professionalism, Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: In love, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.