Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has a hunchback. Her head has been shaved. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: The child of a Blacksmith, who enjoyed hunting, Maiathah was taken on many hunting expeditions. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Scribe. She has achieved small success as a Scribe.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new scribe responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 400 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (70 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (70 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (70 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is typically in his Architect uniform. His blue crest is long and unkept. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. 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 born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: She wears an entirely brown suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born in the west. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 300 gp. Jasper (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Eye agate (13 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her white hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This dark-skinned male is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Torz grew up listening to his mother's many stories. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature trident.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp).