Description: She stands about 6'5" and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has moderate length blue hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are black.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bookbinder profession.

History: She was born in a small forest village. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1300 pp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears an entirely black suit with violet socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She has red eyes and a black hat with a violet feather.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Shax will drive conversation. 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 born the only child of a wealthy merchant. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tiefling conditions. She became a Barrister soon after.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 23000 gp. Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Blue diamond (8000 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His green eyes peer out from beneath his top violet hat.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 8000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears professional attire. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Kyle took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up greataxe and armor he uses now. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1200 pp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Jade (90 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp).

Description: Standing 4'9", this woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She keeps her long cinnamon fur kept up in a rat tail. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her top brown hat.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is an amazing painter.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gale studied abroad. 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: She's in love; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 3000 gp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). White opal (700 gp). Jet (130 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Coral (130 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her nunchaku with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears her silver hair down. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. 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: Jarsali was born the youngest of three triplets. In her 18th 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 since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 5000 gp. Moss agate (11 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a black coat with grey slacks. She has wavy brown hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Merchant they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Bookbinder, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1100 pp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (130 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp).