Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she likes to wear ponchos typically of a light violet in addition to tight pants. With wild silver hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Merchant work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. Her white hair is lengthy. She has a dull look in her black eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She takes great joy in being the best Shoemaker in town.

History: She was born in the north. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Shoemaker for hire.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she wants to get laid

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Chrysoprase (30 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around her ears. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Philomena was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden pearl (60 gp).

Description: She dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her bastard sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Born in the south to a Weaver, Ovak learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Weaver for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. A true patriot, Faran would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by drow. Faran was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Military, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She is portly but not overly obese. Her red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Helgret isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Armorer they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Fortune-teller, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and he perpetually has his flail ready. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He takes great joy in being the best Cartwright in town.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Simon fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Adept school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Sard (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a brown vest and prefers black and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Engraver who has hired him part-time. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rangrim grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Rangrim. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and to end his boredom

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Jade (110 gp). Rich purple corundum (1200 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). 1 Full Plate. 1 Full Plate. 1 Full Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield.