Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering her clean studded leather. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. A true patriot, Jarana would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Jarana was born on a far eastern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Dyer. She struck the Dyer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Bonds: Job, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 800 pp. Red garnet (90 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a brown vest and prefers black and violet shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Born in the west to a Spice Merchant, Maynild learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Spice Merchant. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 12000 gp. Coral (90 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Coral (90 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She prefers to wear yellow pants and tee shirts. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson yellow hat.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. In her 13th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Rosalind alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to dire rats.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 6000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp).

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is wearing a long, tan cloak. She has auburn hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1200 pp. Banded agate (12 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). White opal (700 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears baggy blue pantaloons and a violet scarf. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 700 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman prefers to wear yellow pants and tee shirts and is in decent physical shape. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a Cook, her father struggled to pay the bills. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 300 pp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Red spinel (120 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a fancy pastel suit. His cinnamon fur, when down, is lengthy. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 4000 gp. Bloodstone (50 gp). Brown diamond (4000 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Amber (160 gp). Rose (50 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Jade (160 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Amber (160 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Violet garnet (600 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.