Description: This man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. 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: Born in the west to a Merchant, Arnold learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has worked as a Merchant like his father before him.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She typically wears pastel cloth garments or leather armor. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her yellow fur is braided into rings. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. The war was a terrible time for her, and Sun does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Sun was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Sun's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Sun and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'4" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her white eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson black hat.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. A freak accident while working with her Spice Merchant mother left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2 Thunderstones.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. 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. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 160 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (80 gp). 1 Good lock.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has moderate length brass crest. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She works hard and plays hard.

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 moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has gold crest. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To be a Cook again; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 6000 cp. Zircon (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). 1 Hourglass.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her bastard sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the right. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is a great chef.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She stands about 6'2" and dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Gifted from a young age, Synthrin studied abroad. 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 Actor. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears bulky yellow painted plate armor. He has a very tight haircut. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Roger was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he has a crush on the local bowyer

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.