Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears baggy grey pantaloons and a black scarf. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Artin enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 8000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Brown diamond (8000 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). Rose (60 gp). Jade (160 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a yellow costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. Her golden hair is singed and shortened. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She uses divination through singing.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 6000 gp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (30 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (50 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. A gifted student he started as a Healer, but he got bored and became a Guard. He has worked as a Guard like his father before him.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Opinionated, Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 7000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Peridot (70 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Coral (100 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Amber (100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Amber (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and she perpetually has her nunchaku ready. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her copper unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She found a children's book about a Tabaxi Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Gold and ruby ring (9000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her brown fur is smooth and relatively long. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 9000 gp. Violet garnet (500 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Coral (80 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She dresses well, wearing yellow shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Roofer but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Eloise was born the youngest of three triplets. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains 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 plains due to the painful memories there. Eloise took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up greatsword and armor she uses now. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp).

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her axe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'2" when asserting herself. She has wavy golden hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1100 pp. Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.