Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His hair is red and curly. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Thakrak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. She has shaved her head bald. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Hlin was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a blue poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her red hair is lengthy. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Waywocket isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She carries with her a set of hand crossbows on her belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Ulla is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Ulla abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She's also a talented Spy, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 130 pp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears baggy black pantaloons and a yellow scarf. Her golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and many brigands want her driven away

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: Standing 6'9", this man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and red, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His red hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are a pleasant silver.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Spice Merchant business.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 120 gp. Bloodstone (40 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. A true patriot, Cora would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She married young, but lost her spouse to illithids. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: 2'9" and muscular, this western woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. She has black hair. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver pearl (140 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is typically in her Shepherd uniform. Her brown hair is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: Semyaza hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She's also a talented Body Guard, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing her hectic life and new shepherd responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.