Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Theodoric was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has achieved small success as a Cook.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and to be a merchant again

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. His tied-back hair is red. His ears are large.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gruk is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Gruk was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Barkeep

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

Possessions: 2000 gp. Jet (120 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Iolite (20 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a brown shirt, with a violet mid length skirt with violet tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She has done her best to style her gray fur to look like a famous performer. Her skin is flawless and her blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 18000 sp. 1 Crowbar.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: Maiathah lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Maiathah was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Maiathah decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a white costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her druidic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she is greedy

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 2100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor. He carries with him a set of hammers, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she sports pastel clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her beige fur is heavily combed to the left. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born into a rich family. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Server

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 3000 gp. Obsidian (6 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp).