Description: This late middle aged man is wearing a long, brown cloak and is in decent physical shape. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 pp. Blue quartz (9 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Tourmaline (100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born to a Bowyer, his father struggled to pay the bills. A gifted student he started as a Bowyer, but he got bored and became a Unemployed. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: To be a Bowyer again; and expand his business

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 7000 gp. Jasper (70 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Rich purple corundum (1200 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Black opal (1200 gp).

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He is portly but not overly obese. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Gifted from a young age, Dalgal studied abroad. He found a children's book about a Dwarf Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Slave. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 11000 gp. Amber (80 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Sard (80 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Amber (80 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. His white hair is heavily combed to the left. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Abad was raised in a hard working conservative environment. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Bonds: Rich, Guardian, In love, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. White pearl (140 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Jade (140 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Jet (140 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. 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 a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Eran enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She struck the Seamstress job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Insomniac, Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 11000 gp. Alexandrite (900 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Jet (130 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp).

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a brown costume with the symbols of death on her torso. Her chestnut hair is cut short. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Opinionated, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 7000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (140 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (90 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 9000 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (130 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp). 1 Medium magic item.