Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He is renowned for his bright white suits and hats, marred by teas. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has gray eyes and a white hat with a red feather.

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 works hard and plays hard.

History: He got into the Herbalist business at a young age. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and balancing his hectic life and new herbalist responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 180 pp. Sard (30 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp).

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She is portly but not overly obese. She is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around her ears. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Oppah is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 2500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He stands about 4'7" and wears a blue vest and prefers yellow and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is chestnut and curly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born into a rich family. His parents enrolled him in a Adept school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 3000 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She has cinnamon fur. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born in the west. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the west were limited. Recently the stress of being a Locksmith has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver ewer (10 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her copper crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Her eyes are red.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. At some point she was captured by illithids and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Professionalism, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2500 gp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. He is physically well-built. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. 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 Actor. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Actor for hire.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Insomniac, Selfish, Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 22000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She carries with her a set of sais on her belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. Her hair is short and golden. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Soapmaker for the past few years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 20 pp.