Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His tied-back hair is white. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Merchant business.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Hoshû took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up sai and armor he uses now. 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: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and 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: Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He wears baggy green pantaloons and a grey scarf. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has wavy silver crest. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He is a Doppelganger in disguise. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Gnomish companion (his 'brother'). He's also a talented Detective, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Detective again; and balancing his hectic life and new soapmaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Howard was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. 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: To reunite with his absent mother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Cynical, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She carries with her a set of morningstars, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has moderate length blonde hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. 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: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Seamstress for the past few years.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp. 2 Thunderstones. 3 Holy water. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses like a well dressed Fletcher does. His orange fur is knotted and matted. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: The child of a Dilettante, who enjoyed hunting, Leaf was taken on many hunting expeditions. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Leaf was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: To be a Dilettante again.

Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a blue collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has wavy blonde hair. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Gifted from a young age, Loopmottin studied abroad. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has black hair. Her eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Through the years after Kallista was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Kallista's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Coral (160 gp). Coral (160 gp). Rose (50 gp). 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her scarlet crest is knotted and matted. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Nala was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Sculptor. She bought a falchion and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a yellow coat over a pastel low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. She has shaved her head bald. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Mara lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mara fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 150 gp. Carnelian (50 gp).