Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She is portly but not overly obese. She keeps her long dark red hair kept up in a rat tail. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 8000 gp. Violet garnet (500 gp). Sard (50 gp). Coral (160 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Sard (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Amethyst (160 gp). Sard (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: This man dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a white coat with yellow slacks. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His blue crest is still thick. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born into a rich family. He dropped out of school to support his sick father, and resented it. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 3000 gp. Eye agate (12 gp). Peridot (80 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She uses divination through singing.

History: She is a Chromatic Dragon in disguise. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants revenge against orcs; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 5000 gp. Onyx (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Coral (60 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Moonstone (80 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.

Description: This woman wears a yellow costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: The child of a Mason, who enjoyed hunting, Vadania was taken on many hunting expeditions. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Stylist.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1000 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2200 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2200 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has wavy white hair. She has a dull look in her black eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. 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: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 pp. Rose (80 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Rose (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Sard (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She prefers to wear yellow clothing when she does not wear armor. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

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. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She bought a hand crossbow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Citrine (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Emerald (1300 gp).