Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has a hunchback. Her golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. 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: To clean up the streets; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 7000 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spice Merchant. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: This light-skinned female wears a fancy blue dress. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has wavy brown hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. Maiathah enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Gifted from a young age, Maiathah studied abroad. After coming to the age of reason, Maiathah took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Emerald (800 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a brown tunic with green highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes, and is pretty ugly. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. The war was a terrible time for him, and Thoradin does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Cook mother left him crippled. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

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

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. His red hair is cut short. He has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. A true patriot, Diggory would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Diggory was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Sculptor. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 190 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His hair is red and curly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He found a children's book about a Half-Elf Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and obtaining odd cultural dragonborn artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 200 gp. Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), marred by chocolates. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He is a Bather first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He uses divination through singing.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 pp.