Description: She is a mite stocky and is typically in her Map Maker uniform. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has worked as a Map Maker like her mother before her.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1100 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp).

Description: She has a missing right arm. She tends to wear a large tan jacket. Her black hair is well kept. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: Cumpen hails from a village terrorized by brigands. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her golden hair is wavy and long. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Ovak has worked very hard to control her curse. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and she wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Addict, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 13000 cp.

Description: This man is very fat, and is typically in his Mortician uniform. Sporting a golden mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His black hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Through the years after Nelkin was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Nelkin's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 5000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp).

Description: She wears grey trousers with tan and pastel striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the right. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her top grey hat.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Nurkara took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up longsword and armor she uses now. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Junk Dealer. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Has a crush, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 160 pp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. She sports golden long hair. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1000 gp. Onyx (30 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Gardener, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Shamil never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: In love, Religious, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He wears a green costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has dyed his greying scarlet crest a little too much giving a sharp scarlet color. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Gargax was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Stylist. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.