Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his black hair up. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Spy they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Bookbinder, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Aquamarine (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a green cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. She carries with her a set of halberds, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her crest is white and very short. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is a great chef.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Mortician work with an outfit from a few towns over. Mortician work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She became a Mortician soon after.

Motivation: She is greedy; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (180 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (20 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and is well dressed, constantly wearing a yellow suit, tan shirt, and blue tie. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She takes great joy in being the best Stableman in town.

History: Melissa was born the youngest of three triplets. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Melissa never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she feels threatened by others

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family, In love. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He carries a battered longsword and tarnished mace as well. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Heian embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 2500 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate.