Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Tawar was born with her mother's beautiful face. A gifted student she started as a Fletcher, but she got bored and became a Spice Merchant. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a fancy black dress. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. A friendly and beautiful Tiefling, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Born to a Bellfounder, her father struggled to pay the bills. 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 has worked as a Glassblower like her father before her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and expand her business

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her gray fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Shipwright they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Healer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: This man is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Ernest hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Enemies, In love, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She stands about 2'8" and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her brown hair is lengthy. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 6'2" and is wearing a long, black cloak. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born in the south to a Knight, Grisha learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He tends to his Knight job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He's also a talented Crown-heir, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and expand his business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'8" when asserting herself. She has styled her red crest well, parting it to the left. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. While she appears to be a normal Dragonborn, 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 became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: 5'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is dressed in a clean green cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her blue hair is thinning but still full. Her black eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed green hat.

Personality: Sekhmet hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Sekhmet was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 30 gp. Obsidian (13 gp). 1 Banded mail.