Description: She wears grey trousers with red and pastel striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears baggy grey pantaloons and a green scarf. His golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He worked as a nervous Junk Dealer and found it very stressful. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 800 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern woman wears a black cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her auburn hair is long and unkept. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker black hat.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. 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 Unemployed. She has achieved small success as a Unemployed.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Unemployed responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a tight fitting yellow shirt and pants. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the left. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: Thomas hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born in the west. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.