Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is typically in his Spice Merchant uniform. He wears his brown hair up. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Aelar was born with his mother's beautiful face. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Spice Merchant. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Detective. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Poor, Has a crush, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 900 gp. Chrysoprase (40 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Jade (80 gp). 4 Tanglefoot bags. 1 Everburning torch. 4 Holy water. 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His brown hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Adventurer. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He got into the Adventurer business at a young age. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature rapier.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'5" when asserting himself. He has no hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Slave Trader business.

History: He was born in the west. Rael was born on a far western plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Slave Trader. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has no hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bookbinder. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bookbinder.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and balancing her hectic life and new bookbinder responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'0". She wears a fancy grey dress, and her gloved hand is found clutching a scythe. She has moderate length red hair. This amber eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. A true patriot, Sybil would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Sybil never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military, In love, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing a long, grey cloak. She has a long golden ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a violet vest and prefers blue and red shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her black hair is heavily combed to the right. She is baby faced.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born in the south. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Phann fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; 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: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 2200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.