Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears her chestnut hair up. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

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 cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

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. A gifted student she started as a Tanner, but she got bored and became a Mayor. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Mayor responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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 raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This dark-skinned female is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has wavy black hair. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. 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 has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Halfling companion (his 'brother'). He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 140 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (140 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears bulky violet painted plate armor. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Arara was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Unemployed. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His blonde hair is cut short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Brewer. He takes great joy in being the best Brewer in town.

History: He got into the Brewer business at a young age. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her hair is blonde and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Pyntle was born the youngest of three triplets. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

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

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a grey broad hat and grey clothes. Her white hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in the north to a Shipwright, Mardred learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. She tends to her Shipwright job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has shaved his head bald. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Halander speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Halander was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

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

Possessions: 1 Simple lock.