Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Herbalist arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is wearing a long, red, dusty cloak. She wears her red hair down. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her broad red hat.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Fortune-teller who has hired her part-time. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wants a kiss.

Ideals: Optimist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, In love, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears professional attire. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the right. His skin is flawless and his gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. 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-sister.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Banded agate (13 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears just a green suit. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Golden pearl (140 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This northern woman prefers to wear white clothing when she does not wear armor. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Tawar lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Crown-heir hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and to reunite with her absent father

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Aerdeth was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Greedy, Fearful, Ugly. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her crest is short and copper. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is a Scribe first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born to a Carpenter, her mother struggled to pay the bills. 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 Scribe. She has worked as a Scribe like her mother before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1700 gp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Gruk is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is a great chef.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Gruk has worked very hard to control his curse. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 200 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp).