Description: This malnourished woman wears professional attire. She has slicked back chestnut hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Merchant who has hired her part-time. The war was a terrible time for her, and Bella does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Being a Merchant kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Hematite (12 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'7" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears baggy tan pantaloons and a blue scarf. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Sapply lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting, Logical, Impeccable. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 3100 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. A gifted student she started as a Healer, but she got bored and became a Sculptor. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 20 gp. Jade (70 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished axe as well. His crest is short and rusty. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Hirrathak grew up listening to his father's many stories. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hirrathak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Standing 4'10", this man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His hair is chestnut and very short. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Mindartis was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Marshal. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Roofer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Marshal, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her cinnamon fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her fierce yellow eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Bather business.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the south were limited. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

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

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 360 gp. Moss agate (11 gp). Iolite (60 gp).

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her red eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed black hat.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born in the north. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Hissing voice

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 white hair is heavily combed to the left. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Mayor. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mayor. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Mayor and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep green spinel (110 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). White pearl (110 gp).

Description: She has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. She is portly but not overly obese. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 6000 cp. Malachite (7 gp).