Description: This late middle aged man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents and is in decent physical shape. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp. Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is tan, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his glaive, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His black hair is greasy and uncared for. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. The war was a terrible time for him, and Thomas does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A freak accident while working with his Barrister mother left him crippled. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gray eyes.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. 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 daughter.

History: Sybil hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 20 pp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. He has auburn hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Anthony 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 Anthony. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; 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: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 2000 sp.