Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and to be a shipwright again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This malnourished man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He wears his silver hair up. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Bucklal fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a blue shirt, with a violet mid length skirt with violet tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature nunchaku.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she has a crush on the local marshal

Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Has a crush, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 9000 cp. Jet (90 gp). Coral (90 gp). Banded agate (12 gp).

Description: 6'3" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a trident on her belt. Her crest is red and curly. Her gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born to a Mayor, her father struggled to pay the bills. A gifted student she started as a Mayor, but she got bored and became a Doctor. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Doctor for the past few years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 29000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern woman is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, pastel shirt, and brown tie. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has styled her blue crest well, parting it to the right. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Raiann fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Tourmaline (160 gp). Azurite (6 gp). 1 Banded mail.