Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is a Baker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Baker for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Baker responsibilities is difficult; and she is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Golden pearl (150 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She tends to wear a large violet jacket. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Lia hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Lia grew up listening to her father's many stories. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: Azurite (4 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her top tan hat.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She takes great joy in being the best Herbalist in town.

History: The child of a Tanner, who enjoyed hunting, Ella was taken on many hunting expeditions. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Recently the stress of being a Herbalist has made it difficult for her to sleep.

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

Flaws: PTSD, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She's in love; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Has a crush, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears bulky green painted plate armor. He has moderate length dark red hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines silver.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Balam was born on a far eastern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Stylist. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is dressed in an above average manner. She has styled her blonde hair well, parting it to the right. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Menny 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 Menny. Being a Barber 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: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a white tunic with black highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. He carries a battered club and tarnished greataxe as well. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. A gifted student he started as a Map Maker, but he got bored and became a Animal Trainer. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Joker. Bonds: Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 14000 cp. Rose (40 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She is wearing a long, tan cloak. She has a hunchback. She sports a flattop hair cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. 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, Theirastra is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 100 gp. Emerald (500 gp). Hematite (15 gp).

Description: She is typically in her Mortician uniform. She carries with her a set of scythes, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She worked as a nervous Mortician and found it very stressful. She has achieved small success as a Mortician.

Motivation: To be a Slave Trader again; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

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

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1 Good lock.