Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a violet coat. His skin is also unnaturally pale. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his 15th 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Fearful. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She sports auburn long hair. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Stylist hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Engraver again; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Carnelian (80 gp). Rose (80 gp). Moss agate (4 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she dresses well, wearing grey shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is an amazing painter.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is typically in her Stylist uniform. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has worked as a Stylist like her mother before her.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Mercenary; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 140 gp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Born to a Merchant, her father struggled to pay the bills. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes., and she perpetually has her warhammer ready. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Enidda fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it, and she perpetually has her axe ready. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. The war was a terrible time for her, and Shamil does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Shamil hails from a village terrorized by brigands. When Shamil reached her early adolescence her Gnome mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Standing 3'7", this man wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. 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: He is a Slaad in disguise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Merchant. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged woman typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor and is in decent physical shape. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Pearl was born on a far southern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Herbalist. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.