Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 3'11". She wears a grey shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and green pants, and her gloved hand is found clutching a rapier. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born in the east to a Cook, Mardred learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. When Mardred reached her early adolescence her Dwarf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Bookbinder. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bookbinder and was forced into it by her family; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian, Poor, Nature, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 40000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a white collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Osco hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Osco abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is his passion; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Family, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a blue tunic with tan highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is golden and very short. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. 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. Unvera fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.