Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He usually wears his brown robe and has his club always slung over his shoulder. He has a hunchback. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from 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: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Insane. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. His hair is red and curly. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born into a rich family. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He's also a talented Spy, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 600 sp. Black pearl (200 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). 1 Antitoxin.

Description: A 5'6" western woman, she wears a black vest and prefers pastel and blue shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker black hat.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Ekk took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up greataxe and armor she uses now. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 90 gp. Eye agate (4 gp).

Description: This man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 50 gp. Bloodstone (70 gp).