Description: Runty and weak-looking, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has golden hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Ella was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Soapmaker. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Soapmaker and was forced into it by her family; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 250 gp. Jet (90 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (70 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing a tight yellow one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Wymar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Baker for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 800 sp. Silver pearl (160 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears baggy black pantaloons and a brown scarf. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She is a great chef.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against brigands; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 120 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with black slacks. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Eberdeb 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 recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he likes to wear tan tank tops with green pants, and is pretty ugly. His tied-back hair is auburn. His ears are large.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears violet leather gloves, a violet jacket, and tight pants. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears a colorful flower in his golden hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and carries whips. His crest is rusty and curly. He is baby faced.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He takes great joy in being the best Cartwright in town.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his 14th 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze, marred by chocolates. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was taken from her home at a very young age. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Family, Slave. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate.