Description: This slender woman stands about 6'3". She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Born in the east to a Spice Merchant, Art learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Debt. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 gp. Banded agate (9 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'11" and wears baggy black pantaloons and a brown scarf. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. After months of barely getting by, Gaaki managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

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

Possessions: 120 pp. Citrine (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'11". She tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her orange fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. She tends to her Barkeep job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His brown hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. Through the years after Shane was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Shane's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Forgetful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a yellow coat. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Beiro was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mayor. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 100 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp).