Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears suspenders and grey workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 gp. 2 Thunderstones. 1 Holy water. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: This woman is very fat, and prefers to wear flannel. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Sybil hails from a village terrorized by illithids. 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 Mercenary. She's also a talented Spice Merchant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and a wedding ring on his right hand. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. She is portly but not overly obese. Her red hair is lengthy. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Rosalind is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Soapmaker arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Rosalind has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 100 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Blue sapphire (1200 gp).