Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. He has no hair. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker grey hat.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Miner. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Miner work with an outfit from a few towns over. Miner work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Miner for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

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

Possessions: 20 gp. Jade (40 gp).

Description: 4'1" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a brown collared shirt and grey skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. 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 Shepherd. She's also a talented Map Maker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand her business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is a great chef.

History: Fonkin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp. Jade (130 gp). Rose (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Bowyer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her purple hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Semyaza is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Semyaza hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Healer for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Enemies, Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 pp.