Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears tan trousers with black and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He sports a flattop hair cut. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He tends to his Map Maker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and balancing his hectic life and new map maker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease, Greedy. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has wavy white hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Oloric is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new engraver responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, In love, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She is typically in her Apothecary uniform. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Gurdis was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. A gifted student she started as a Mason, but she got bored and became a Apothecary. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'11" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She usually wears her tan robe and has her dagger always slung over her shoulder. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Baker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears an entirely grey suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His hair is cut close to his head. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Tabaxi activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Tabaxi doctor. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: 4'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing. Her white hair is well kept. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Birel was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 14000 cp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. To her fellows she 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: Gifted from a young age, Thodris studied abroad. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Thodris was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She is portly but not overly obese. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

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. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Mara has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Opinionated, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 3000 gp. Hematite (12 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp).

Description: 2'10" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a simple red robe with green stripes complete with hood. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Pirithin embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Pirithin lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp.