Description: An older woman who likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants, she is not a threatening figure. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 30 pp. Onyx (70 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes. and is in decent physical shape. His white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Tailor. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Erias was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He worked as a nervous Tailor and found it very stressful. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

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

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears yellow robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a rapier, but if one is not available he will default to his ceremonial dagger. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a Gardener, his father struggled to pay the bills. He found a children's book about a Half-Elf Sorcerer 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's also a talented Gardener, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and to reunite with his absent father

Bonds: Job, Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Rose (20 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 3'1" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has black hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Sarai was born with her mother's beautiful face. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 5'0" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a black shirt, with a blue mid length skirt with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker black hat.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Ownka lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 120 gp. Jasper (50 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his falchion with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Orryn never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, In love. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. He is physically well-built. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a fancy tan dress. She wears her brown hair up. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 a great chef.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Through the years after Breena was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Breena's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 17000 cp.

Description: This woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her white hair is knotted and matted. This black eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Gardener arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Gardener like her mother before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).