Description: A 6'2" northern woman, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She keeps her long green crest kept up in a rat tail. Her ears are large.

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. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She got into the Engraver business at a young age. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Engraver. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat, and is pretty ugly. His purple hair is thinning but still full. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Banker. Akmen enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Akmen was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Banker work with an outfit from a few towns over. Banker work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1600 gp. Alexandrite (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male has the majority of his body covered in plate. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Erdan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is content

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender woman typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. Her golden hair is still thick. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Faral was born the youngest of three triplets. Faral was born on a far southern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Servant. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is greedy; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Chalcedony (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Dragonborn, and stands approximately 6'8". He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and his gloved hand is found clutching a halberd. He has dyed his greying white crest a little too much giving a sharp white color. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born in the south. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears a white vest and prefers violet and blue shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has wavy red hair. Her ears are large.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Orc in existence. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Courier profession.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 6000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a green cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying west to reunite her family. She's also a talented Sculptor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Jade (160 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. Her black crest is singed and shortened. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady red eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Shoemaker. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Akra lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Family, In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1800 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (120 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp).