Description: This man sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his right hand. He wears his blonde hair down. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 7000 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Canary diamond (7000 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears grey trousers with black and violet striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He wears his auburn hair up. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. 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 Sage. He has achieved small success as a Sage.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2000 gp. Moonstone (40 gp). Blue-white diamond (4000 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Jet (140 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). White pearl (140 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a nunchaku on her belt. Her blonde hair is still thick. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. 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: She got into the Shoemaker business at a young age. She worked as a nervous Shoemaker and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new shoemaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 5000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a black coat with tan slacks. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Bella is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born in a small desert village. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 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.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a black vest and prefers blue and yellow shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His parents were killed by giants in a raid when he was still a young child. The giants captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 900 pp. Moss agate (9 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Jade (90 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Jade (90 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty green coat over it, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He wears his scarlet crest down. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born in the north to a Masseuse, Shamash learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Through the years after Shamash was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Shamash's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He struck the Masseuse job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 10000 gp. White opal (1200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp).

Description: This woman prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Healer born in the past three hundred years. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She struck the Healer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Rose (30 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Jet (70 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Jade (70 gp). Blue sapphire (600 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Blue sapphire (600 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Amber (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.