Description: Standing 5'5", this woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Spice Merchant. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Sumnes has worked very hard to control her curse. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Forgetful, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This late middle aged woman has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her tan robe and is in decent physical shape. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Junk Dealer profession.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Disease, Insane, Greedy. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a black scarf. She is physically well-built. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Baelitae isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. The war was a terrible time for her, and Baelitae does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Baelitae was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Now she works as a music tutor during her time off.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. Gilbert enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. 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 seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane, Hedonist, Disease. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 600 sp.