Description: Runty and weak-looking, she dresses like a well dressed Butcher does. She has shaved her head bald. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Butcher business.

History: Mardnab was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. She worked as a nervous Butcher and found it very stressful. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Butcher.

Motivation: To be a Seamstress again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: An older man who wears a brown collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt, he is not a threatening figure. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

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. When Thoradin reached his early adolescence his Dwarf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a tight fitting blue shirt and pants. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Efferil was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Efferil grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Efferil. He has worked as a Bookbinder like his father before him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. 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 snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. 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 leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black opal (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. He worked as a nervous Animal Trainer and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Animal Trainer responsibilities is difficult; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears baggy brown pantaloons and a grey scarf, she is not a threatening figure. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Gifted from a young age, Quick studied abroad. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Quick never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 150 pp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp). 1 Minor magic item.