Description: This late middle aged man wears a white wide-brimmed hat and white clothes and is in decent physical shape. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Faran abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and revenge

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1200 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (90 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp).

Description: She wears a grey vest and prefers yellow and grey shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her hair is blonde and very short. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Elven people; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1100 pp. Black pearl (900 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Hematite (13 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp).

Description: This woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Elven companion (her 'brother'). Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Malquis was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 8000 gp. Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Sard (50 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Obsidian (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Pink pearl (140 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and green handkerchief worn on her left side. She keeps her long gray fur kept up in a rat tail. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She struck the Slave Trader job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 11000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Sard (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Amber (120 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Jade (120 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Bendoo was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She's also a talented Bricklayer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

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

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, In love, Job, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 9000 gp. Black pearl (700 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Sard (40 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Rose (40 gp). Coral (130 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Jet (130 gp). Rose (40 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Amber (130 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Zircon (40 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His crest is blue and curly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. 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 to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Shepherd.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 7000 gp. Onyx (40 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Black opal (1200 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Jet (150 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Amber (150 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Blue sapphire (1200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has moderate length bronze crest. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic, Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1600 pp. Blue sapphire (1100 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Jet (120 gp). Emerald (1100 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Coral (120 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.