Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Norman was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Norman decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Spice Merchant kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is cut close to his head. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Drogo lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Bounty Hunter, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 80 gp. Azurite (11 gp).

Description: An older man who wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a crossbow on his belt, he is not a threatening figure. His silver hair is braided into rings. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. Mordai enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Emerald (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Eye agate (11 gp).

Description: A 4'8" southern woman, she prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vicky grew up listening to her father's many stories. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.