Description: 5'7" and muscular, this eastern man wears professional attire. His hair is silver and curly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 48. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 500 pp. Aquamarine (600 gp). Jet (40 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a brown shirt with thin green vertical stripes and brown pants. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. 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 several months after his mother was called into army service. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

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

Possessions: 400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (70 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a sword, but if one is not available she will default to her monstrous two handed axe. Her gray fur is thinning but still full. She is baby faced.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This malnourished man wears just a green suit. He has no crest. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. 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: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 50 pp. Red garnet (120 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Jade (120 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a halberd, but if one is not available she will default to her bow. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Bardryn was born with her father's beautiful face. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Her addictions have taken their toll on her wallet, and she has found herself with a great deal of debt owed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 18000 cp. 2 Smokesticks. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: This tall, slender man wears grey trousers with blue and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

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. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Chad was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Professionalism, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull tan iron scale mail, and he perpetually has his longbow ready. His brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Nordak enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Nordak hails from a village terrorized by illithids. At a young age his father died while driving off some illithids. His mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in longbow use. 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. Nordak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

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

Possessions: 390 gp.