Description: This light-skinned male typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull violet iron scale mail. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His silver hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man is typically in his Map Maker uniform and is in decent physical shape. His black fur is still thick. His copper eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He got into the Map Maker business at a young age. Through the years after Jade was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Jade's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 900 pp. Tourmaline (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Jet (90 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Chrysoberyl (90 gp).

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He wears his red hair down. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He stands about 6'1" and dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears his white fur up. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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 also has developed a complete distrust of the Mayor profession.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A gifted student he started as a Mayor, but he got bored and became a Shepherd. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp. Sard (70 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears just a brown suit. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vondal grew up listening to his father's many stories. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He tends to his Sage job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is greedy; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 90 pp.