Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a brown tunic with yellow highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is long and blonde with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small brown clips. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Mercenary who has hired her part-time. 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. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 6000 gp. Red garnet (50 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized pastel coat. His brown fur is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He is a Cartwright first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Spear is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the north to a Cartwright, Spear learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has achieved small success as a Cartwright.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 11000 gp. Red garnet (160 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Amethyst (160 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his white robe. His hair is short and chestnut. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Rimple hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Rimple was born on a far western plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Shoemaker. Now he works as a poetry tutor during his time off.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and human compassion

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 6000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 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: Standing 4'11", this man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a Mason first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. When Alex reached his early adolescence his Half-Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich, Military, Guardian. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1900 pp. Violet garnet (1300 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Jade (100 gp). Jade (100 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Amber (100 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Rose (60 gp). Moonstone (60 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is brown and very short. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Whurbin was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Justice, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Greedy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 5000 gp. Rose (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Justin wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Druid, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

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. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and doesn't want to be a courier and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 11000 gp. White pearl (160 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Jacinth (6000 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Blue diamond (6000 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Emerald (1300 gp).