Description: This woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born in the north to a Ploughman, Helja learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her childhood dream was to be a Armorer, but she was a colossal failure. She has worked as a Ploughman like her father before her.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 9000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a yellow armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 3000 gp. Moss agate (7 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Coral (150 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). White opal (700 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Coral (150 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has moderate length blue hair. His gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Euron liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Terse, Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a simple white robe with green stripes complete with hood. He is an epitome of beauty. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Chay has worked very hard to control his curse. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Disciplined, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 700 pp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (80 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (80 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a green coat with brown slacks. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Nagrette was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. A gifted student she started as a Glassblower, but she got bored and became a Junk Dealer. Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Nagrette never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Job, In love. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 11000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Silver ewer (70 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is typically in his Adventurer uniform. He has moderate length brown hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Zook's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He got into the Adventurer business at a young age. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Adventurer. He has worked as a Adventurer like his father before him.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 4000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Rose (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 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. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has wavy black fur. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. The war was a terrible time for her, and Smoking does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: In love, Religious, Military, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (30 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (10 gp).