Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Cumpen grew up listening to her mother's many stories. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 700 sp. Carnelian (50 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. After a long history of fighting, Anakis and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to prove her worth to the world

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Chrysoprase (80 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. After coming to the age of reason, Gerald took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Joker, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 90 gp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears professional attire. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Artin hails from a village terrorized by drow. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 20 gp.