Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 36000 sp. 4 Tanglefoot bags. 4 Tanglefoot bags. 2 Thunderstones. 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: Standing 3'2", this man usually wears his tan robe and has his flail always slung over his shoulder. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His ears are large.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Scribe born in the past three hundred years. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He's also a talented Fisher, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Cory was born with his father's beautiful face. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 120 pp. Black pearl (400 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears violet trousers with black and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His silver hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Optimist, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars, and is pretty ugly. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. He has gray eyes.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Shoemaker business.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. 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's repulsed by the PC; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 pp. A small bag of saffron. (100 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.