Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She prefers to wear flannel. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. After coming to the age of reason, Thiala took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Cook for hire.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to be a merchant again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1800 sp. Black pearl (600 gp).

Description: He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His dark red hair is greasy and uncared for. He has white eyes and a green hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Andram liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears tattered old clothes. Her blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts and is in decent physical shape. Her purple hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Gomory lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Dyer they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Performer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 9000 sp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears bulky white painted plate armor. She has black hair. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is an amazing painter.

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. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Layabout hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Can't modulate volume

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

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His red fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His green eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker pastel hat.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'10" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears just a black suit. His golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: Hork speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Hork abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 9000 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a simple tan robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. Her white hair is long and unkept. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: The child of a Masseuse, who enjoyed hunting, Syllin was taken on many hunting expeditions. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Halfling compassion.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Guardian, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has moderate length brass crest. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dragonborns.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Elven companion (his 'brother'). He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1200 sp. Hematite (5 gp).