Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He tends to wear a large brown jacket. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 20. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Shane was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy blue stubble. She is wearing a long, green cloak. She has a hunchback. She has no hair. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her father's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered gnolls who tried to eat her hand. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Fletcher does. Her crest is silver and curly. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fletcher.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 800 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. He has a dull look in his silver eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Born to a Doctor, his father struggled to pay the bills. A gifted student he started as a Doctor, but he got bored and became a Mayor. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with violet slacks. Her hair is dark red and curly. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Through the years after Aym was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Aym's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has taken up work as a Knight and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.