Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His first spouse was a Baker, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spice Merchant and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a lance on his belt. He has a hunchback. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Farmer but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Antagonistic. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has no hair. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bellfounder. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Bellfounder for hire.

Motivation: She is greedy; and balancing her hectic life and new bellfounder responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His ears are large.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born into a rich family. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon 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 island due to the painful memories there. Dagger took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up rapier and armor she uses now. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Military, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears a worn and beaten armor. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her auburn hair is long and unkept. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Human, 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 3'0" and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. She is baby faced.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Vani embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 80 gp. Hematite (16 gp). 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a green tunic with violet highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. His gold crest is long and unkept. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Engraver born in the past three hundred years. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He got into the Engraver business at a young age. Gargax was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Gargax decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 800 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).