Description: Standing 5'10", this man wears a brown collared shirt and red pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He takes great joy in being the best Spice Merchant in town.

History: He got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Frederick was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and money/treasure

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Military, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a hand crossbow, but if one is not available he will default to his bow. He wears his green crest up. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Fax is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 13000 sp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp).

Description: Standing 6'2", this woman is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has styled her red hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are red.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. 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: Born to a Healer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1000 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 3'9". She tends to wear a large brown jacket, and her gloved hand is found clutching a hammer. She keeps her blonde hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Family, Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Star ruby (1300 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Jet (150 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Rich purple corundum (1300 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His chestnut hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 800 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is an epitome of beauty. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Takra hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 700 gp. Black opal (700 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp). Fire opal (700 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'11" and wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She keeps her purple hair in a pixie cut. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Junk Dealer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. He carries with him a set of monstrous two handed axes on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Being a Shepherd kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (20 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (170 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears pastel trousers with yellow and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has moderate length orange fur. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his green eyes.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. 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. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.