Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. Her silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Kathra grew up listening to her mother's many stories. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. After a long history of fighting, Kathra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a green coat with black slacks. Her auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She got into the Bowyer business at a young age. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bowyer. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 600 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).

Description: She wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With wild brown hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Eran was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 320 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This northern man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his club with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the left. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Efferil is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Efferil alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 30 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. He carries with him a set of morningstars on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. His black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Engraver. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her dark red hair is greasy and uncared for. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a Armorer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. The war was a terrible time for her, and Vapula does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in the west to a Armorer, Vapula learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 390 gp. Moss agate (14 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shield with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her green crest is thinning but still full. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Hethress enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Terse, Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He wears long strands of jet and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He is physically well-built. He keeps his copper crest in a pixie cut. 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 happy with his job as a Glassblower. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Glassblower. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Glassblower for hire.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This man dresses like a well dressed Shoemaker does. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. He wears his silver hair down. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born in a small forest village. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 gp.