Description: This northern woman wears tattered old clothes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has a very tight haircut. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Spice Merchant profession.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Ruler hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Ruler responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His scarlet crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gifted student he started as a Weaver, but he got bored and became a Miller. He has worked as a Miller like his mother before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family, Slave. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3200 gp. Hematite (10 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Red garnet (120 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he dresses like a well dressed Seamstress does. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: Eberdeb was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He has achieved small success as a Seamstress.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered green stockings, and he perpetually has his scimitar ready. His black hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Dyer business.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1200 gp. Deep green spinel (110 gp). Coral (110 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. The war was a terrible time for him, and Hupe does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the south. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Hupe took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up scimitar and armor he uses now. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 800 gp.