Description: She is lean but muscular and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. Her gray fur, when down, is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. 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: To be a Barrister again; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with green slacks. His chestnut hair is lengthy. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is a great chef.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His parents enrolled him in a Bard school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Gold music box (3000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: She wears a red vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her red boots flare out at the collars. She carries with her a set of pickaxes, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic, Mundane. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 45000 sp. Iolite (70 gp). Jade (50 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. She has a long white ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Spice Merchant. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Gillyd was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (130 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp).

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing a long, brown cloak. His silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Glassblower for the past few years.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 40 gp. Amber (50 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of drow may trigger it at times.

History: Marbas was born the youngest of three triplets. His first spouse was a Engraver, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against drow; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Coral (60 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Moonstone (30 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears professional attire. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. 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 speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Nora was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: Eye agate (10 gp). 1 Holy water.