Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears his auburn hair up. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Soapmaker. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Soapmaker business.

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. Bilbron 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1 Hourglass.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her long golden hair reaches down to her waist. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Gardener but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Ellyjoybell lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1200 pp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Black star sapphire (1600 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He tends to wear a large violet jacket. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Has a crush, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: She stands about 3'0" and usually wears her red robe and has her flail always slung over her shoulder. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is short and black. She has hazel eyes and a red hat with a green feather.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Gifted from a young age, Dee studied abroad. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This western man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He takes great joy in being the best Shoemaker in town.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Interpreter born in the past three hundred years. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 48000 sp. Sard (20 gp).

Description: He wears a blue shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and brown pants, and carries hammers. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Senteq was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Senteq decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her scarlet crest is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She struck the Fletcher job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1000 gp. Azurite (5 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Herbalist arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Rich, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Banded mail.