Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a grey vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her grey boots flare out at the collars. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end her boredom.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Insane. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He typically wears violet cloth garments or leather armor. His hair is long and red with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small violet clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Solomon wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 sp. Pink pearl (60 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His hair is short and golden. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Gifted from a young age, Drogo studied abroad. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. He tends to his Soapmaker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, PTSD, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 13000 cp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He stands about 5'5" and wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His cinnamon fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Shy, Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 190 gp. Iolite (40 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Rose (40 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His childhood dream was to be a Spice Merchant, but he was a colossal failure. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mayor responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears tattered old clothes. His golden hair is thinning but still full. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive, Mundane. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 2000 cp. Amethyst (70 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). 1 Silk rope.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gifted student he started as a Server, but he got bored and became a Interpreter. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new interpreter responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 2700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a simple yellow robe with grey stripes complete with hood. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson yellow hat.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a blue shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and brown pants. Her head has been shaved. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Ranala isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. After a long history of fighting, Ranala and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 500 sp.