Description: This younger middle-aged woman is typically in her Shoemaker uniform, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She got into the Shoemaker business at a young age. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Job, In love, Attractive. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears baggy tan pantaloons and a red scarf, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is short and auburn. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Gifted from a young age, Naeris studied abroad. His childhood dream was to be a Mayor, but he was a colossal failure. He tends to his Locksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Iolite (40 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has styled her red fur well, parting it to the left. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Passionate. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 230 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver crest. He is renowned for his bright green suits and hats. He has a hunchback. His crest is short and silver. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He struck the Mason job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Fletcher. She has achieved small success as a Fletcher.

Motivation: She wants revenge against giants; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Guardian, Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 160 pp. Violet garnet (400 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. With wild white hair. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Hlin grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. After coming to the age of reason, Mamnen took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and he has a crush on the local seamstress

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a greataxe on her belt. Her silver hair is braided into rings. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, 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. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and gnomish compassion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 900 sp.