Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Vanchu was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Vanchu decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She's in love; and she has a crush on the local shipwright

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She is renowned for her bright red dresses and hats. She has a hunchback. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has gray eyes and a red hat with a green feather.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Map Maker. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He stands about 5'3" and tends to wear a large green jacket. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His long purple hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His silver eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Hedonist, Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 180 pp. Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are white and beady.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She was born into a rich family. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has moderate length white hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 Laborer. She has worked as a Laborer like her mother before her.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 20 gp. Amber (130 gp).

Description: She wears a brown broad hat and brown clothes. She keeps her long gray fur kept up in a rat tail. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines yellow.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Masseuse; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears professional attire. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Fisher. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born into a rich family. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again.

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 35000 sp. Coral (60 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Zircon (50 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Flaws: Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1300 gp. Obsidian (13 gp). Jade (120 gp). Rich purple corundum (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. 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 left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 5000 sp.