Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is wearing a long, blue cloak. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

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. A freak accident while working with his Shepherd mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 700 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (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.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her red hair is thinning but still full. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 7000 gp. Iolite (50 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a black costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has dyed his greying silver crest a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His eyes are red and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Miner they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Roofer, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: In love, Family, Nature, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 300 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. She is portly but not overly obese. Her blue crest is smooth and relatively long. Her gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. 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 was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 500 pp. Moss agate (7 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and tan handkerchief worn on his right side. His white hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Trey was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Ruler. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a sage again

Ideals: Persistence, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. Alexandrite (800 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Amethyst (80 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Rose (40 gp).

Description: This man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 1. 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 passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Zogdûsh lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 900 pp. Onyx (80 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Coral (90 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her black eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Courier mother left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Lazy, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1600 pp. Zircon (60 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Iolite (60 gp).