Description: This slender woman stands about 3'6". She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Abalaba grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and expand her business

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 40 pp. Emerald (1500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'1" and wears baggy white pantaloons and a pastel scarf. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 3000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (90 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1700 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born in the west to a Engraver, Bagabug learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Engraver for hire.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new engraver responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 28000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She is typically in her Map Maker uniform. She sports a flattop fur cut. She has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Gale embodies much of what other species detest in the Tabaxis. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She got into the Map Maker business at a young age. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1200 gp. Solid gold idol (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rûg fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Red spinel (40 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.