Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. 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 gold crest is greasy and uncared for. He has red eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Fax was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He worked as a nervous Guard and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Guard responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Baggi grew up listening to her father's many stories. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is dressed in an above average manner. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. Watson enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content.

Flaws: Emotional, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Debt. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses like a well dressed Spy does. His hair is long and black with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 17000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses like a well dressed Herbalist does. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: This man loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He got into the Herbalist business at a young age. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Herbalist. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Herbalist and was forced into it by his family; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His silver hair is heavily combed to the right. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She wears a simple brown robe with tan stripes complete with hood, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'5" when asserting herself. She has done her best to style her white fur to look like a famous performer. Her skin is flawless and her green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Bellfounder who has hired her part-time. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Shoemaker. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Emma is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, 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 spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She wears her silver crest up. This gold eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She's also a talented Marshal, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Artistic, Joker. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Religious, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 90 gp. Golden pearl (110 gp).