Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a tan tunic with black highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. 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 is content.

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 pp. Black opal (1500 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Rose (40 gp). Amber (160 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp).

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his scimitar, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Darrow is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Darrow grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1200 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. Her skin is light but she possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the left. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Spice Merchant profession.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Kansif was born on a far southern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Actor. 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'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 7000 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look and is in decent physical shape. His cinnamon fur is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise copper.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Debt. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 900 pp. Black pearl (400 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Rose (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he usually wears his blue robe and has his shortbow always slung over his shoulder. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Sapply alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 11000 gp. Black pearl (700 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Rose (80 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Brown diamond (7000 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Brown-green garnet (120 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Rose (80 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Amber (120 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a blue costume with the symbols of death on her torso. Her brown hair is smooth and relatively long. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Cumpen is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 6000 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She has a hunchback. She has wavy golden hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Dyer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 8000 gp. Star rose quartz (60 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). 1 Medium magic item.