Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Apothecary business.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. After months of barely getting by, Aelar managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Kildrak's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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. Kildrak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor, marred by beers. His hair is long and golden with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Trym hails from a village terrorized by giants. His first spouse was a Apothecary, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Trym was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. A freak accident while working with her Spice Merchant father left her crippled. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (130 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Tawar 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. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and balancing her hectic life and new healer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, black shirt, and blue tie. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Quarion is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

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

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she very much looks the part of a Shoemaker. Her red hair is matted, messy, and big. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Shoemaker born in the past three hundred years. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is typically in his Bookbinder uniform. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 79. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Gardain was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bookbinder for hire.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gennal is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the south were limited. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 60 gp. Deep green spinel (90 gp).