Description: She is typically in her Merchant uniform. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears her white hair down. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. A gifted student she started as a Spice Merchant, but she got bored and became a Merchant. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to be a spice merchant again

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Guardian, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 400 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Jarsali was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Bather soon after.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 160 gp. Brown-green garnet (110 gp). 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: He stands about 4'8" and wears silk and lounges about seductively. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born into a rich family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has achieved small success as a Slave Trader.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her silver hair is thinning but still full. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. 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: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Godfrey has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. She wears baggy blue pantaloons and a yellow scarf, marred by teas. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2000 cp. Malachite (13 gp).

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has a very tight haircut. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Painter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heather fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Dwarven people; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears dull blue sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed kukri, just in case. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Orryn liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with green colored cloaks and clothing. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has scarlet crest. His skin is flawless and his red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker, Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 500 sp.