Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is physically well-built. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 10000 gp. Aquamarine (600 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Rich purple corundum (1200 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and black handkerchief worn on her right side. She wears a colorful flower in her beige fur. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. Now she works as a singing tutor during her time off.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 pp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Thorin was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Thorin's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 11000 gp. Alexandrite (700 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Jade (150 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Coral (150 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her blonde hair is lengthy. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Apothecary hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She prefers to wear white clothing when she does not wear armor. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Locksmith work with an outfit from a few towns over. Locksmith work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She's also a talented Body Guard, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1200 pp. Peridot (50 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing, and is pretty ugly. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Rael studied abroad. His parents were killed by illithids in a raid when he was still a young child. The illithids captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Rael was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Pacifist, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 8000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a green shirt, with a yellow mid length skirt with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her green crest is still thick. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in the north to a Unemployed, Gilkass learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greatsword.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Religious, Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 12000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (80 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp).