Description: A middle-aged man, he has the majority of his body covered in plate, and is pretty ugly. He has a very tight haircut. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Brewer mother left him crippled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Hedonist. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: She typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor, and carries greatswords. Her chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. 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. Balifra fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Insomniac, Disease. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with pastel slacks. His crest is bronze and curly. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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 got into the Bookbinder business at a young age. Through the years after Kriv was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Kriv's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bookbinder responsibilities is difficult; and expand his business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Amethyst (120 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She very much looks the part of a Doctor. Her golden hair is long and unkept. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Doctor. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Nikki was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is typically in his Spy uniform. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. 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: Alberich was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He's also a talented Barkeep, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away.

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. 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 was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 sp. White pearl (110 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the west. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has a crush on the local ruler

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a pastel vest and prefers brown and green shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her white fur is singed and shortened. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed pastel hat.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She is content; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She tends to wear a green poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her hair, while still mostly purple, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are likewise black. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Lerissa has worked very hard to control her curse. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

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 is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1700 sp. Peridot (60 gp).