Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has a very tight haircut. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

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 however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His childhood dream was to be a Jeweler, but he was a colossal failure. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1500 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears suspenders and white workpants. Her shirt is red, and she wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. This hazel eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Guardian, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1300 pp. Rock crystal (30 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Sard (30 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). White pearl (120 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, blue shirt, and black tie. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He got into the Stableman business at a young age. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Stableman for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 2'9" and muscular, this eastern woman is renowned for her bright white dresses and hats. Her hair is long and golden with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small white clips. She has green eyes and a white hat with a red feather.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 400 gp.