Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears bulky tan painted plate armor. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Lazy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 gp. Zircon (70 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a white armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. His hair is short and golden. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. After coming to the age of reason, Kûga took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: An older man who wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a yellow coat, he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 700 gp. Blue quartz (16 gp). Hematite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her copper eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Trail grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Trail. Being a Map Maker kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp.