Description: He is wearing a long, white cloak. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Ortegar was born with his father's beautiful face. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature quarterstaff.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is dressed in earthy colors with a green and tan handkerchief worn on his left side. His silver hair is lengthy. His silver eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down and is in decent physical shape. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: The child of a Herbalist, who enjoyed hunting, Joser was taken on many hunting expeditions. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 11000 cp.

Description: This eastern woman wears dull green sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed bow, just in case. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a Stableman first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Soapmaker profession.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Stableman hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Stableman for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Uthemar lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Uthemar has worked very hard to control his curse. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Buckler.

Description: This man wears blue trousers with white and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His golden hair is still thick. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Sculptor responsibilities is difficult; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 60 gp. Amber (160 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Iolite (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This younger middle-aged man sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His eyes are green.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Norman was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has taken up work as a Weaver and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a fisher again

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 130 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. He keeps his long blue crest kept up in a rat tail. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is mildly Dragonborn supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is an amazing painter.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 gp.