Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp).

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker white hat.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Jeweler arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp. Black pearl (900 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A 5'10" western man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has wavy blonde hair. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, 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. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Peridot (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She tends to her Priest job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he likes to wear tan tank tops with red pants. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Fletcher who has hired him part-time. A true patriot, Gerbo would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: His arcane 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 Fletcher. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Military, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 33000 sp.