Description: 5'11" and muscular, this eastern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He wears his black hair up. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Mayor born in the past three hundred years. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. A gifted student he started as a Ruler, but he got bored and became a Mayor. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new mayor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Violet garnet (500 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose red pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: A 6'5" southern woman, she wears a green costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her white hair is thinning but still full. This red eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Osah grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His cinnamon fur is still thick. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. His first spouse was a Cook, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 600 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.