Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his nunchaku with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries a battered longsword and tarnished nunchaku as well. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are likewise silver.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Paymon was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Paymon alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Family, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 19000 cp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Painter. He tends to his Painter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is greedy; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a pastel vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his pastel boots flare out at the collars. His gray fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears dull blue sweaters, loose yellow pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed falchion, just in case. He has moderate length white hair. His eyes are amber.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

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. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Being a 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: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Emotional, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 10000 sp. Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.