Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Architect, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured and is in decent physical shape. His long chestnut hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born in the west. His first spouse was a Roofer, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp. 5 Acid flasks. 3 Tanglefoot bags. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears suspenders and red workpants. Her shirt is yellow, and she wears a heavy red leather apron most of the time. Her hair is white and curly. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is a great chef.

History: She was born into a rich family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

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

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: She stands about 6'4" and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her blue hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of goblins once and for all.

History: The child of a Mason, who enjoyed hunting, Sekhmet was taken on many hunting expeditions. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and balancing her hectic life and new navigator responsibilities is difficult

Bonds: Job, Enemies, Nature, In love, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her head has been shaved. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rohesia fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20 gp. Obsidian (14 gp).

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He dresses well, wearing green shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His hair is short and red. His silver eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Born in the south to a Healer, Merihim learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Healer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has done her best to style her black crest to look like a famous performer. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.