Description: This slender man stands about 4'11". He dresses well, wearing yellow shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Spice Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Spice Merchant work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to be a tanner again

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a white feathered hat and white clothes. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Gifted from a young age, Purban studied abroad. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Bonds: Guardian, Debt. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: This man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. He has moderate length red hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist, Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a pastel collared shirt and grey skirt. She accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her yellow fur has been sun bleached extensively. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 gp. Rock crystal (60 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.