Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a fancy white dress, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Slave Trader responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Black pearl (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). Sard (30 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Rose (30 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). Star ruby (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. 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: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the west. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (180 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is brown and curly. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Nalaed was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 800 pp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (130 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Baker business.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 12000 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (180 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. Heward enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1400 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp).

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1700 pp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (70 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (3000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (40 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp).

Description: This western woman is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her clothes are grease stained in places. With bright red hair. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born in the west. Elizabeth was born on a far western mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Adventurer. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 8000 gp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Coral (90 gp). Jade (90 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.