Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He takes great joy in being the best Engraver in town.

History: Born to a Bookbinder, his father struggled to pay the bills. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He tends to his Engraver job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and balancing his hectic life and new engraver responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Shy, Greedy. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Job, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (700 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He stands about 5'4" and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. He has green eyes.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. 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, Mindartis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 3200 gp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. 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 is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Sarah embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Rock crystal (40 gp).

Description: This light-skinned male wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Uthemar has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She sports a flattop fur cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She bought a spear and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and to be a bricklayer again

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is blonde and very short. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive, Fearful, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'1" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a green coat with brown slacks. He has styled his red crest well, parting it to the left. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 800 gp.