Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length brown fur. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Merchant. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is an amazing painter.

History: Born in the south to a Merchant, River learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Merchant. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. After a long history of fighting, Sark and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1400 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 2'10" when asserting herself. Her blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her ears are large.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Nikki is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nikki grew up listening to her father's many stories. A gifted student she started as a Servant, but she got bored and became a Actor. She tends to her Actor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp).

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Engraver. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Engraver for hire.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 2'10". She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Born in the north to a Sage, Stacee learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She became a Sage soon after.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 4000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Weaver. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Weaver for hire.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and to be a bounty hunter again

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a white small hat and white clothes. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. She has green eyes and a white hat with a blue feather.

Personality: Vorka is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Vorka was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is greedy

Ideals: Extrovert, Professionalism, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.