Description: This late middle aged woman wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings and is in decent physical shape. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Sariel grew up listening to her father's many stories. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). Azurite (6 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears a fancy black suit. His hair is short and black. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tieflings.

History: Marbas was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Orc companion (his 'brother'). He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She wears her green crest down. Her eyes are red.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Onyx (70 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. She carries a battered mace and tarnished shortspear as well. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. 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 born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Eleanor abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who dresses like a well dressed Laborer does. His crest, while still mostly brass, has prominent grey streaks. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Laborer. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Laborer responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Military, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 150 gp. Malachite (8 gp).

Description: She wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. She is portly but not overly obese. Her brown fur is long and unkept. Her yellow eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Cask is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. Cask was born on a far western forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Scribe. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His lavender fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are likewise copper.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'1" when asserting herself. She has dyed her greying beige fur a little too much giving a sharp beige color. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.