Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Engraver, and carries flails. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

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. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears professional attire. She keeps her brown hair in a flapper bob. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Orsik hails from a village terrorized by drow. 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. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants revenge against drow.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 160 pp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He sports a flattop crest cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: 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; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears just a violet suit. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length golden hair. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born into a rich family. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soothing and warm

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

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his pastel robe. His crest is cut close to his head. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Greethen was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 6000 sp. Fire opal (600 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Black pearl (600 gp).

Description: He usually wears his black robe and has his rapier always slung over his shoulder. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Spice Merchant profession.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He became a Ruler soon after.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 360 gp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has wavy black hair. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Galiena and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 3'0", this woman prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. Her red hair is cut short. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Gifted from a young age, Tervaround studied abroad. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Tervaround was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Being a Painter kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 42000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.