Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'1" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His blonde hair is braided into rings. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 Slave Trader. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Rose (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing a long, black cloak. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

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 always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Carpenter business.

History: Skamos was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Carpenter for the past few years.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He uses divination through singing.

History: Clerebold hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He tends to his Adventurer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his dark red hair up. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his silver eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Pelaios was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

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

Description: This woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Orianna was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. Alexandrite (900 gp).

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his trident with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has gray fur. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature trident.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp).

Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'9" and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Adran was born the youngest of three triplets. His first spouse was a Scribe, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'3". She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She has moderate length silver hair. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: Born in the west to a Spy, Whurdred learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears just a white suit. Her hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Through the years after Grigi was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Grigi's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 600 sp.