Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. With wild white hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Shamil enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the west to a Spice Merchant, Shamil learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

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).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with green slacks. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. A freak accident while working with his Tanner father left him crippled. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears skinny pants and wears a white and black robe with the hood down. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 4000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.