Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp).

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker white hat.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Jeweler arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp. Black pearl (900 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A 5'10" western man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has wavy blonde hair. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, 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 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 wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Peridot (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She tends to her Priest job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he likes to wear tan tank tops with red pants. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Fletcher who has hired him part-time. A true patriot, Gerbo would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 Fletcher. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Military, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 33000 sp.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'1" when asserting himself. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dragonborn companion (his 'brother'). He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has a crush on the local bounty hunter

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2600 sp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Armorer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Bather, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears an entirely black suit with yellow socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He wears his green crest up. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a green shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and pastel pants. His white hair is braided into rings. His skin is flawless and his silver eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Akmen was born the youngest of three triplets. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

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

Possessions: 150 gp.