Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. She has no fur. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 500 gp. White pearl (60 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a white tunic with green highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. His head has been shaved. His ears are large.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Junk Dealer. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a green collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His eyes are likewise white. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Qemuel and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and dresses like a well dressed Dyer does. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is short and blonde. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Dyer born in the past three hundred years. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When Fabien reached his early adolescence his Gnome father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Blacksmith again; and balancing his hectic life and new dyer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Lazy, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Soapmaker born in the past three hundred years. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Soapmaker for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a doctor again

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 sp.