Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His red hair is lengthy. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. Heward enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Tanner like his father before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 3000 gp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He is portly but not overly obese. He has moderate length chestnut hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Passionate, Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Coral (150 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Jade (150 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Jacinth (3000 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Jade (150 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Rose (70 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has moderate length golden hair. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Baker who has hired him part-time. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Baker and was forced into it by his family; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Chalcedony (30 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Blue diamond (7000 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Jade (130 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Rose (30 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Rose (30 gp).

Description: She wears a violet shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and pastel pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'6" when asserting herself. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Sybil has worked very hard to control her curse. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 8000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is typically in her Adventurer uniform. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born in the north. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Expand her business; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1100 pp. Golden pearl (150 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Jet (150 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears brown trousers with white and green striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Human conditions. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and gnomish compassion

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Selfish, Racist. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Aquamarine (1500 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears tattered old clothes. His red hair is singed and shortened. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.