Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Bernard is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Bernard hails from a village terrorized by orcs. 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. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Tailor profession.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Ploughman arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He struck the Ploughman job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and expand his business

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has wavy blonde hair. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Elysande grew up listening to her mother's many stories. In her 14th 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 has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 160 gp. Sardonyx (70 gp).

Description: She wears a blue vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her blue boots flare out at the collars. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her hair is short and auburn. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gifted student she started as a Spice Merchant, but she got bored and became a Banker. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she is greedy

Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (140 gp).