Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her hair is white and curly. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Layabout. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Jacoba never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, In love. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 3000 sp. Sard (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp).

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She uses divination through singing.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She struck the Ploughman job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and expand her business

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 500 gp. Jade (150 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He got into the Herbalist business at a young age. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Debt. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and is pretty ugly. Her golden hair is wavy and long. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Ahlyssa was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. Blue star sapphire (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.