Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears just a black suit. She has no hair. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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: Born to a Herbalist, her father struggled to pay the bills. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Semyaza has worked very hard to control her curse. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 900 pp. White pearl (120 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Rose (80 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Sard (80 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp).

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Doctor. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Doctor. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. He wears his red hair down. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Varis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and doesn't want to be a courier and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bowyer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He married young, but lost his spouse to gnolls. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. A small bag of saffron. (60 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). Solid gold idol (800 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. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He carries with him a set of tridents, each one with a opal on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Spice Merchant profession.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Barkeep work with an outfit from a few towns over. Barkeep work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. 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. Richard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 6000 gp. Blue sapphire (900 gp). Jet (100 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Clear bright green emerald (2000 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. She has silver eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (70 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Mason arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature mace.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. White opal (1300 gp). Amber (100 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Rose (80 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Malachite (9 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.