Description: This slender man stands about 5'6". He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Born in the north to a Scribe, Jocelyn learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has worked as a Scribe like his father before him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new scribe responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2000 cp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He is physically well-built. He has no crest. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 70. 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 is a great chef.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Cook arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Buckler.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with grey slacks. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His parents enrolled him in a Aristocrat school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Rose (60 gp). Rose (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp).

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This blue eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

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 has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Debt. Occupation: Architect

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 40000 cp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is dressed in earthy colors with a black and violet handkerchief worn on her right side. She wears her dark red hair up. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. Osah 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. Osah 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. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears long strands of topaz and short pastel dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears his orange fur up. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: He stands about 6'4" and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His crest is white and curly. His eyes are gold.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He has achieved small success as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: He's in love; and expand his business

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 6000 sp. Clear bright green emerald (3000 gp). Black opal (1200 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Blue sapphire (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.