Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she very much looks the part of a Blacksmith. Her tied-back hair is auburn. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Eldeth hails from a village terrorized by brigands. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1200 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (180 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (180 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (20 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (180 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (180 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (20 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (20 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (20 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp).

Description: She wears a black shirt, with a blue mid length skirt with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She carries with her a set of bastard swords on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the south were limited. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to be a barber again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 2000 gp. Aquamarine (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears his silver hair down. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Animal Trainer business.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 11000 gp. Rose (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Amber (110 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). Rose (20 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and expand his business

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 11000 gp. Malachite (13 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Sard (40 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Pink diamond (8000 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Jade (50 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she dresses like a well dressed Glassblower does, and is pretty ugly. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Tervaround was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. She worked as a nervous Glassblower and found it very stressful. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: Expand her business; and balancing her hectic life and new glassblower responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 600 pp. Jet (130 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Jade (130 gp). Black opal (800 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Black opal (800 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears professional attire. He wears his blonde hair down. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in the south to a Blacksmith, Ar-Beka learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Malachite (8 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Sard (80 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Sard (80 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Jade (120 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Azurite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'9". She wears a brown shirt with thin green vertical stripes and tan pants. Her red fur is heavily combed to the right. She has yellow eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 11000 gp. Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Zircon (50 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.