Description: This woman wears just a green suit, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has gold crest. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 3000 gp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Jade (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Malachite (12 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'9". She wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born in the south to a Brewer, Avice learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Amber (140 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Amber (140 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Amber (140 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around her ears. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born in the south to a Servant, Callie learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To be a Bookbinder again.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Deep green spinel (90 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Coral (90 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man tends to wear a large brown jacket. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. His red fur is lengthy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Unemployed they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Dilettante, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1400 pp. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his mace with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has wavy brown fur. He is baby faced.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He is a Hag in disguise. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 11000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (180 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (70 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (180 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (70 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (180 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and he perpetually has his longbow ready. He wears his silver hair up. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. A friendly and beautiful Tiefling, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Barkeep mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and dresses like a well dressed Shoemaker does. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length white hair. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the east. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Religious, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 600 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Rose (30 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Zircon (30 gp).