Description: This woman is very fat, and tends to wear a large pastel jacket. Her red fur is long and unkept. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. 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 daughter.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gifted student she started as a Cartwright, but she got bored and became a Courier. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Courier for hire.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 5000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'1" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears skinny pants and wears a green and tan robe with the hood down. Her bronze crest is singed and shortened. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. 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 pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her childhood dream was to be a Hunter, but she was a colossal failure. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 600 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She dresses like a well dressed Mercenary does. She sports white long hair. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She got into the Mercenary business at a young age. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 9000 gp. Black pearl (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Hematite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively, and carries flails. He has wavy purple hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. When Akmen reached his early adolescence his Tiefling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Gold and ruby ring (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her crossbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her brown hair is singed and shortened. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Susannah took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up crossbow and armor she uses now. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Susannah fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 7000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a fancy white suit. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Bulzo is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He got into the Barrister business at a young age. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 4000 gp. Amethyst (50 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp). Jade (50 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Vicky was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student she started as a Servant, but she got bored and became a Actor. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vicky fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 5000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.