Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a simple brown robe with black stripes complete with hood. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Charles's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. After a long history of fighting, Charles and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and money/treasure

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 140 gp. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are black.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Manea embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. 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 was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. After a long history of fighting, Manea and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a yellow tunic with brown highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. She has brown eyes and a yellow hat with a brown feather.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She worked as a nervous Bather and found it very stressful. She has achieved small success as a Bather.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. He is baby faced.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He takes great joy in being the best Stylist in town.

History: Anthony hails from a village terrorized by orcs. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 sp. Chrysoberyl (150 gp).