Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he prefers to wear flannel. He sports a flattop hair cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Herbalist profession.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Pelaios was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Pelaios's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Azurite (5 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears an entirely white suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 340 gp. Peridot (80 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He wears his red fur up. His eyes are likewise yellow.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in the east to a Performer, Left-Handed learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2200 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears baggy red pantaloons and a white scarf, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has slicked back black hair. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: In love, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'2" and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. He has blue eyes and a grey hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

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 is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

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

Possessions: 20 gp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.