Description: Standing 6'3", this woman is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her bronze crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Mortician. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Mortician. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Job, Family, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her tied-back hair is golden. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Hadwisa hails from a village terrorized by illithids. She always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Hadwisa was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids.

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'4" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His blonde hair is lengthy. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and doesn't want to be a marshal and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 200 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp).

Description: Standing 3'2", this woman wears baggy red pantaloons and a black scarf. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She is obsessed with her god.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.