Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Urshar hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a Herbalist, her mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Barber hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Being a Barber kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A freak accident while working with his Fortune-teller mother left him crippled. He struck the Sailor job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To be a Fortune-teller again.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 180 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: Standing 6'0", this man has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his yellow robe. His hair is short and golden. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Map Maker born in the past three hundred years. The war was a terrible time for him, and Folgûm does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Map Maker for hire.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and to be a layabout again

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 900 gp. Aquamarine (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'8". He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Erky fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 400 gp. Moonstone (80 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Black opal (1400 gp). Blue-white diamond (2000 gp).