Description: 3'4" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, green shirt, and grey tie. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is mildly Gnome supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'4". He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He sports a flattop hair cut. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. Ozyman was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Mason. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Red spinel (130 gp). 1 Banded mail.

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.