Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She takes great joy in being the best Soapmaker in town.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 6000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'4" when asserting himself. He wears his green crest down. He has red eyes and a green hat with a grey feather.

Personality: Mreksh hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. 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: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 3000 gp. Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Canary diamond (7000 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Sard (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Sard (20 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. With bright black hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Interpreter. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Guardian. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. Rose (60 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Jade (40 gp). Blue diamond (7000 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Jacinth (7000 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. His silver crest is heavily combed to the right. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Vrondiss and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 7000 gp.

Description: She stands about 5'7" and wears a green cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She keeps her long purple hair kept up in a rat tail. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Cook business.

History: She was born in the west. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 8000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Amber (120 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'11" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears bulky violet painted plate armor. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: Phann hails from a village terrorized by giants. At a young age her mother died while driving off some giants. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in sickle use. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 6'4", this man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull violet iron scale mail. His bronze crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This red eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. 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, Gorbundus is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Revenge; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive, Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 500 pp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Zircon (60 gp).