Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His red hair is singed and shortened. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his top brown hat.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He married young, but lost his spouse to illithids. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is content; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Standing 5'3", this woman wears a white vest and prefers black and red shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her red hair is wavy and long. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. 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: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Hrathy was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Black pearl (1600 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her crest is brass and curly. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by vampirism.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 gp. Amber (50 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp).

Description: This man wears a white coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on his right hand. His auburn hair is still thick. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born into a rich family. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears professional attire. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Gardener. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a herbalist again

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2400 sp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat and is in decent physical shape. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Williamina was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Through the years after Williamina was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Williamina's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To end her boredom.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 2800 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'5". She wears long strands of amethyst and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are likewise gray.

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 misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Bonds: Rich, Nature, Immigrant, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He very much looks the part of a Mortician. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Adam enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He got into the Mortician business at a young age. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Mortician. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Coral (60 gp). White opal (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears his blue crest down. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. After a long history of fighting, Adrex and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Coral (110 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Jet (110 gp).