Description: An older woman who wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, she is not a threatening figure. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She was born in the north. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying north to reunite her family. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 10000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. 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 son.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Igden grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Igden. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Bounty Hunter they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Spice Merchant, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Silvo was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. He has white hair. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: Beiro is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: The child of a Crown-heir, who enjoyed hunting, Beiro was taken on many hunting expeditions. Beiro was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Beiro decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.