Description: An older woman who is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, she is not a threatening figure. She has wavy golden hair. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Isabella was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her youth she was a Bather, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She became a Knight soon after.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He wears an entirely tan suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Peren was born the youngest of three triplets. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She stands about 4'10" and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has wavy white hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She got into the Bather business at a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 360 gp. Onyx (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his silver crest down. He has red eyes and a black hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a red coat with black slacks, and is pretty ugly. She has slicked back golden hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: Euphemia was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Coral (40 gp).