Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A 4'1" eastern man, he prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. His silver hair is still thick. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Shoemaker. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1000 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has a very tight haircut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 6000 gp. Aquamarine (1400 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Azurite (14 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her childhood dream was to be a Fisher, but she was a colossal failure. She tends to her Butcher job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 3000 sp. Blue sapphire (1200 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp).

Description: She wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. She is portly but not overly obese. Her white hair is singed and shortened. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She worked as a nervous Stableman and found it very stressful. She struck the Stableman job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man usually wears his red robe and has his flail always slung over his shoulder. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Thorpe speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Thorpe was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Soapmaker. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a blue coat. He has a hunchback. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He dropped out of school to support his sick father, and resented it. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Barber they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Banker, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Banker and was forced into it by his family; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 pp. Alexandrite (300 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.