Description: She very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. She is physically well-built. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her childhood dream was to be a Shipwright, but she was a colossal failure. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 700 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 60 gp. Golden pearl (80 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt and is in decent physical shape. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She got into the Laborer business at a young age. She worked as a nervous Laborer and found it very stressful. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. Her silver hair is long and unkept. Her gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She bought a bastard sword and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a blue tunic with violet highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around his shoes. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Shipwright for hire.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 2000 gp. Banded agate (14 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His head has been shaved. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. 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: The child of a Sellsword, who enjoyed hunting, Uraim was taken on many hunting expeditions. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He tends to his Mortician job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult; and to be a sellsword again

Ideals: Justice, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears professional attire. She has slicked back white hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and expand her business

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and she perpetually has her axe ready. Her black fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. Her ears are large.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Silent was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Silent's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She has moderate length red hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Manea speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Manea was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Just what you see.