Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is dressed in an above average manner. She wears a colorful flower in her yellow fur. 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 jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Assassin they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Ploughman, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Ploughman and was forced into it by her family; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a brown scarf. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. 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: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Mayor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he is content

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a brown coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. His hair is long and red with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are gray.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is short and silver. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

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 well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She keeps her brass crest in a pixie cut. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Vezera was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She very much looks the part of a Cartwright. Her red hair is lengthy. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. 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 owns her own business.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: White pearl (90 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears tattered old clothes, and is pretty ugly. He wears his silver hair up. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He got into the Dyer business at a young age. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Percival alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He became a Dyer soon after.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 320 gp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp).

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His hair is auburn and curly. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Taklinn embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born in the east. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Locksmith hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. After a long history of fighting, Taklinn and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 70 gp.