Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His hair is red and curly. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He became a Cartwright soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 sp. Pink pearl (140 gp).

Description: This woman wears a simple blue robe with red stripes complete with hood. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small blue clips. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: Nissa is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Nissa was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Dwarven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Dwarven doctor. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and dwarven compassion

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Impulsive, Racist, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His orange fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His ears are large.

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. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Shadow is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the north

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

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 90 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has no hair. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Ishte was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She worked as a nervous Bowyer and found it very stressful. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bowyer.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: Standing 3'3", this man wears long strands of aquamarine and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 30 gp.