Description: This woman stands a little under 6'1" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears her red hair up. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Hadwisa lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Hadwisa was born on a far northern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Slave Trader. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 3000 sp. Alexandrite (1200 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man is renowned for his bright black suits and hats and is in decent physical shape. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: American accent

Possessions: A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp).

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears his chestnut hair down. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Servant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thomas grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Thomas. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Bonds: Family, Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Eye agate (4 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Citrine (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears professional attire. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her auburn hair is heavily combed to the right. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. 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: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. 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 Herbalist. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 4000 sp.