Description: Standing 3'5", this man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has brown hair. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 500 gp. Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His silver hair is braided into rings. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. The war was a terrible time for him, and Kelter does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden pearl (130 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. Her red hair is thinning but still full. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Slave Trader. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Jade (130 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Moss agate (13 gp).

Description: This southern woman likes to wear ponchos typically of a light pastel in addition to tight pants. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her fur is cinnamon and very short. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Shipwright born in the past three hundred years. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Shipwright business.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She worked as a nervous Shipwright and found it very stressful. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 20 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). 4 Holy water. 4 Antitoxin. 1 Everburning torch.