Description: An older woman who wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her warhammer with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is silver and very short. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Baker profession.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. A gifted student she started as a Baker, but she got bored and became a Bookbinder. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and money/treasure

Flaws: Emotional, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1100 pp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (10 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (10 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears suspenders and pastel workpants. His shirt is green, and he wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His yellow eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 4000 gp. Gold and ruby ring (9000 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). Silver ewer (60 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She has wavy brown hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 2000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp).

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing a long, white cloak. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He bought a shield and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Military, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 8000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (170 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is typically in her Spice Merchant uniform. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

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 will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1000 pp. A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. Sporting a blonde mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Unemployed arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp).

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears just a black suit. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. Her black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Ea is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born into a rich family. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Locksmith for hire.

Motivation: To protect her home; and balancing her hectic life and new locksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 pp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Coral (130 gp). Malachite (16 gp).