Description: This man is very fat, and wears a red vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His pastel leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his red boots flare out at the collars. His white hair is still thick. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Crown-heir. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Locksmith profession.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Crown-heir.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a trident, but if one is not available he will default to his greatsword. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1000 gp. Emerald (1600 gp). Rose (60 gp). Azurite (8 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears a blue wide-brimmed hat and blue clothes, marred by chocolates. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Map Maker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Military, Poor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Professionalism, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She has a missing right leg. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her golden hair is still thick. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and red, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Barrister. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 4000 cp. Red garnet (120 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Muggrish hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 400 gp. Aquamarine (800 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp).