Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her bastard sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears her blonde hair up. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a Barkeep first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She worked as a nervous Barkeep and found it very stressful. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Barkeep for the past few years.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and balancing her hectic life and new barkeep responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'6" when asserting herself. Her black hair is still thick. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Herleva grew up listening to her father's many stories. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Herleva never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, In love. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: She is typically in her Painter uniform, and carries ceremonial daggers. She has red hair. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Mardred was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has worked as a Painter like her mother before her.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She is physically well-built. She has wavy red hair. Her half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. Golden pearl (80 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He wears skinny pants and wears a grey and brown robe with the hood down. He has a hunchback. He has no hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Slave Trader. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Barendd was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student he started as a Body Guard, but he got bored and became a Slave Trader. He became a Slave Trader soon after.

Motivation: To be a Body Guard again; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 900 sp.