Description: 6'7" and muscular, this northern man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His orange fur is knotted and matted. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he's in love

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 15000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (8000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 4'2", this woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. Her silver hair is long and unkept. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. A gifted student she started as a Laborer, but she got bored and became a Tanner. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Poor, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 12000 gp. Blue quartz (13 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This dark-skinned male is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 8000 gp. Blue quartz (15 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has gold crest. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 56. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Bookbinder business.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bookbinder. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bookbinder for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Body Guard again; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 5000 gp. Black star sapphire (500 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 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.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'7" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She has wavy lavender fur. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Skirt hails from a village terrorized by giants. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She bought a bow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and many giants want her driven away

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature, In love. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1900 pp. Black pearl (1500 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Amber (160 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She keeps her beige fur in a pixie cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 600 pp. Eye agate (12 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Amber (40 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: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and he perpetually has his glaive ready. His hair is long and red with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

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. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Stannor alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Stannor was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Lapis lazuli (10 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Fire opal (1000 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Rose (40 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Blue star sapphire (1000 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item.