Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a blue shirt with thin white vertical stripes and tan pants. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. A gifted student he started as a Spice Merchant, but he got bored and became a Ploughman. He struck the Ploughman job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Impeccable, Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 700 pp. Black pearl (1500 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a black coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears her rusty crest up. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 40 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. He has blue eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has worked as a Spice Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1900 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).