Description: This man stands a little under 5'8" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is typically in his Apothecary uniform. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Balimaar is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Balimaar was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has worked as a Apothecary like his mother before him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Apothecary responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 700 gp. Chrysoprase (20 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This eastern woman is typically in her Layabout uniform. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the east to a Layabout, Griselda learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has achieved small success as a Layabout.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 30000 cp. Moss agate (13 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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. The war was a terrible time for him, and Trym does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born in a small plains village. Trym liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She stands about 5'9" and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has black hair. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Human culture. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Mary hails from a village terrorized by drow. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.