Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Tod was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Architect and found it very stressful. He has achieved small success as a Architect.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 30 pp. Banded agate (16 gp). 1 Average lock. 1 Climber’s kit. 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: This woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her left hand. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Servant who has hired her part-time. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Engraver.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: A 5'4" southern man, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Amûg was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Amûg abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1200 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp).

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and carries pickaxes. His hair is blonde and curly. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Blacksmith arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 900 gp. Jasper (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Jade (40 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'2". She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her top blue hat.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and carries bastard swords. Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Baker who has hired her part-time. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Gardener. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 2600 gp. Citrine (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Pink diamond (5000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Dagnal was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Silk rope.