Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His bronze crest is singed and shortened. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He got into the Merchant business at a young age. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He tends to his Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 7000 cp. 2 Smokesticks.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She is physically well-built. Her golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A gifted student she started as a Bookbinder, but she got bored and became a Fortune-teller. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

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

Possessions: 60 pp. Emerald (700 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and dresses like a well dressed Miner does. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She struck the Miner job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, red shirt, and black tie. Her hair is red and very short. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Anbera alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and she wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spice Merchant. His hair is golden and very short. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Bookbinder. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are blue.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To be a Farmer again; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He wears a simple white robe with brown stripes complete with hood, and carries clubs. He keeps his auburn hair in a flapper bob. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Terse. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is an amazing painter.

History: Trym was born the youngest of three triplets. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his right hand. He has wavy blue hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Silk rope.