Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Mason profession.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bookbinder. She struck the Bookbinder job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears a tan wide-brimmed hat and tan clothes, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has wavy auburn hair. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Addict, Sensitive, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears skinny pants and wears a green and violet robe with the hood down. His purple hair is long and unkept. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1200 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 1. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mason business.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She worked as a nervous Mason and found it very stressful. She has achieved small success as a Mason.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. 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 Masseuse. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a weaver again

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious, Guardian. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. Her hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She takes great joy in being the best Fletcher in town.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Fletcher for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 gp. Pink pearl (50 gp). Obsidian (12 gp).

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a black costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. Her green crest is heavily combed to the right. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born in the east. A gifted student she started as a Shepherd, but she got bored and became a Layabout. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Gnomish companion (his 'brother'). He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

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

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and is pretty ugly. He has scarlet crest. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Hunter they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Cook, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and doesn't want to be a cook and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 190 pp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp).