Description: This tall, slender woman wears baggy grey pantaloons and a green scarf. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Jacoba hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. Her hair is blonde and very short. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Tanner but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Tanner for the past few years.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 130 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

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 does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he has a crush on the local shepherd

Flaws: Selfish, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears an entirely tan suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Galinndan lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Shipwright they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Sculptor, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 230 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp).