Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her hair is blonde and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Spice Merchant business.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Animal Trainer profession.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family 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. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 17000 cp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a blue costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. He has wavy brown hair. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Dreali has worked very hard to control his curse. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 2900 gp. Black opal (1600 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Sard (30 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Hematite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her black eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Ruler arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, tan shirt, and black tie. He has a hunchback. Sporting a black mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. 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 betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1000 gp. Hematite (4 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Seamstress. He carries with him a set of spears on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his silver eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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: He was raised by priests from a young age. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 7000 sp. Chalcedony (70 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. She keeps her beige fur in a flapper bob. Her fierce yellow eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Ethereal hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Ethereal never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 4000 gp. Violet garnet (600 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp).

Description: This man wears just a grey suit, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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 Unemployed. He became a Unemployed soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new unemployed responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 700 sp. Lapis lazuli (10 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She keeps her silver hair in a flapper bob. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Servant. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born in the south. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 230 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.