Description: He wears a grey vest and prefers black and pastel shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Mason. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He worked as a nervous Mason and found it very stressful. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to end his boredom

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Emerald (1400 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Emerald (1400 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears skinny pants and wears a green and black robe with the hood down. She has wavy red hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She takes great joy in being the best Stableman in town.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies, Job, Military. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1000 sp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. Her black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She worked as a nervous Crown-heir and found it very stressful. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Crown-heir responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 400 gp. Rich purple corundum (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a pastel vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her pastel boots flare out at the collars. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She got into the Butcher business at a young age. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Butcher work with an outfit from a few towns over. Butcher work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Bookbinder again; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.