Description: Standing 4'9", this woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized pastel coat. Her fur is black and curly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Ploughman born in the past three hundred years. River enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born into a rich family. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Ploughman work with an outfit from a few towns over. Ploughman work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She struck the Ploughman job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, brown shirt, and blue tie. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her silver hair is heavily combed to the right. Her red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Laborer. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Laborer. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Slave, Job, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 20 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He likes to wear grey tank tops with black pants, marred by teas. His silver hair is cut short. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a grey coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born in the north. Frederick was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Navigator. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 3000 cp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, and is pretty ugly. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1500 sp. Pink pearl (110 gp). Red garnet (110 gp).