Description: She is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Tourmaline (90 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'1" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

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

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He tends to his Locksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She prefers to wear flannel. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears skinny pants and wears a violet and brown robe with the hood down. His red hair is long and unkept. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Hunter was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents enrolled him in a Adept school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is content

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: 3'9" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a grey tunic with black highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around her shoes. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She took after her father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her father taught her to defend herself. When her father died while fighting illithids, the young Ovina began to lead the lost caravan. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Ovina was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 cp. Sard (60 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull violet iron scale mail. She is physically well-built. Her white hair is thinning but still full. 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 can speak with the recently deceased. 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: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is content; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane, PTSD. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Moonstone (20 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Amethyst (160 gp).

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her brown hair is cut short. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born into a rich family. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born in the west. Ekk was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ekk decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Gardener kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.