Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He tends to his Stableman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Stableman responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jasper (40 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Efferil was born with his father's beautiful face. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Efferil alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 4000 gp. Amber (130 gp). Jade (130 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Amber (130 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a white feathered hat and white clothes, he is not a threatening figure. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Varis grew up listening to his mother's many stories. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Carter. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2300 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.