Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her blonde hair is thinning but still full. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. After a long history of fighting, Yevelda and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 500 gp. Banded agate (15 gp). White opal (400 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has done his best to style his red fur to look like a famous performer. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Tailor business.

History: Gale was born with his mother's beautiful face. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a fancy tan suit. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears a green Stetson hat and green clothes. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His crest is red and curly. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Valorean was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gifted student he started as a Weaver, but he got bored and became a Spice Merchant. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Slave, Job, Religious, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 3100 sp. Peridot (20 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Onyx (20 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: A 4'11" eastern woman, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is content; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 200 sp.