Description: This light-skinned male wears a white cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Hoshgrish is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Hoshgrish was born the youngest of three triplets. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 3000 gp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Iolite (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He's also a talented Map Maker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Carnelian (20 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: The child of a Server, who enjoyed hunting, Callybon was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are white and beady.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Forcas was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Ruler. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 5'11" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His red fur has been sun bleached extensively. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Gold cup set with emeralds (6000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She wears her black hair up. Her ears are large.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Mayor arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Vapula was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. 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 be a Miner again; and she is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. Azurite (9 gp). Blue sapphire (400 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a fancy violet dress. She keeps her brown hair in a pixie cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Juliana was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Juliana was born on a far northern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Painter. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (12000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). A small bag of saffron. (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 6'8" and wears a black vest and prefers blue and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has red hair. His black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire.

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Blue sapphire (400 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. She wears her white hair up. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. 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 set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Slave, Job, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp.