Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a brown shirt, with a grey mid length skirt with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 12000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He stands about 4'9" and is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering his clean studded leather. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is baby faced.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Balimaar is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Family, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 9000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull white iron scale mail. His red hair is long and unkept. His ears are large.

Personality: He hates drow. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Abad is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Abad lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He took after his mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his mother taught him to defend himself. When his mother died while fighting drow, the young Abad began to lead the lost caravan. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 7000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 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. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears tattered old clothes. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She uses divination through singing.

History: Rosamund was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Baker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has achieved small success as a Baker.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 12000 gp. Alexandrite (1500 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Red spinel (110 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a grey coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is cut close to his head. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Shy. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 700 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (30 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (170 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He tends to wear a large tan jacket. His hair is chestnut and curly. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson tan hat.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. 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 has passion for adventuring and risk; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 5000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2700 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). Gold and ruby ring (9000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (60 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (60 gp).

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears his brown fur down. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his yellow eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 900 pp. Jade (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).