Description: This late middle aged woman wears tattered old clothes and is in decent physical shape. She keeps her black hair in a flapper bob. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Merchant born in the past three hundred years. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing music.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She struck the Merchant job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 40 gp. Chrysoberyl (140 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length red hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Seddit was born with her mother's beautiful face. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Roofer. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 600 pp. Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Amethyst (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Performer. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her cinnamon fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a Performer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In her 13th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Beast alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She became a Performer soon after.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. He has wavy red crest. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Rivaan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Athletic. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Scribe who has hired her part-time. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. A freak accident while working with her Herbalist mother left her crippled. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She's in love.

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 100 pp. Banded agate (12 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is mildly Half-Orc supremacist, though he does not identify as such. 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: 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. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family, Military, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her hair is short and chestnut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was born into a rich family. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and wants her loneliness to end

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This woman wears a black coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her right hand. Her black hair is heavily combed to the right. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 60 pp. Rock crystal (30 gp). 1 Smokesticks. 3 Antitoxin. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. He has styled his white crest well, parting it to the left. His gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Kaladan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp).