Description: An older woman who dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, she is not a threatening figure. Her black crest is still thick. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Perra alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Baker work with an outfit from a few towns over. Baker work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 500 sp. Hematite (4 gp).

Description: A 5'5" southern man, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Chad was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Chad decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was granted druidic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. With bright black hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her violet eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Gurdis isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 2700 sp. Jet (160 gp). Black star sapphire (800 gp).

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'0" when asserting himself. His lavender fur is thinning but still full. He is baby faced.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She carries with her a set of shields on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Brewer. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Elysande was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to be a priest again

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Job, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His crest is scarlet, silky, and of moderate length. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Rhogar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and a strong sense of loyalty to human people

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her white eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. After coming to the age of reason, Mastema took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 210 gp. Star rose quartz (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'8". He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants, and his gloved hand is found clutching a monstrous two handed axe. His white hair is cut short. He has green eyes and a blue hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. To his fellows he 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: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Persistence, Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 40 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). 1 Banded mail.