Description: This exceptionally lanky man prefers to wear green clothing when he does not wear armor. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a Shoemaker first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born in the north to a Shoemaker, Ekemon learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His parents enrolled him in a Rogue school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a yellow coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. His hair is blonde and very short. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

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: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Through the years after Beiro was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Beiro's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy scarlet crest. He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. He has a hunchback. He has done his best to style his scarlet crest to look like a famous performer. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Valorean was born the youngest of three triplets. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 90000 cp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Carlin was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. A gifted student she started as a Servant, but she got bored and became a Tanner. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Bune was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Bune was born on a far southern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Roofer. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Roofer for the past few years.

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

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with violet lining and desert motifs. Her hair is short and white. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. A gifted student she started as a Blacksmith, but she got bored and became a Layabout. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Fargrim 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 Fargrim. He became a Merchant soon after.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Criminal record, Military, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is always cut to a buzz. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: The child of a Roofer, who enjoyed hunting, Tûhorn was taken on many hunting expeditions. His childhood dream was to be a Roofer, but he was a colossal failure. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new shipwright responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 270 pp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears a brown shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and white pants. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Aline was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Mentor, Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).