Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His dark red hair is thinning but still full. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. 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: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spice Merchant and was forced into it by his family; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Jade (70 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Rose (70 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She is portly but not overly obese. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Sage profession.

History: She got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She is greedy; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This southern man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is short and chestnut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. A friendly and beautiful Half-Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. After coming to the age of reason, Aramil took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He tends to his Bricklayer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To be a Performer again; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 200 pp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'9". He wears a black shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and black pants. His hair is brown and curly. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: Purson hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1200 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.