Description: This eastern man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Shepherd for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. His white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 4000 gp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Jade (120 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp).

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. 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: Wella hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. A gifted student she started as a Cook, but she got bored and became a Actor. She has achieved small success as a Actor.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and to be a cook again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears an entirely blue suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (90 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (90 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (90 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

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 is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Percival fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many red ritualistic tattoos. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. To his fellows he 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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

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

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Architect profession.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Architect, but he was a colossal failure. He has achieved small success as a Bookbinder.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 800 gp. Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp).

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his pickaxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Traki was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Traki 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 Traki. Being a Farmer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Professionalism, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Sard (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. His purple hair is thinning but still full. His black eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. His first spouse was a Slave Trader, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.