Description: This woman very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her purple hair is singed and shortened. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 140 gp. 3 Holy water.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is wearing a long, brown cloak. His blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Adventurer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Olunt abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. 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: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She stands about 6'4" and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her lavender fur is lengthy. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are copper.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Stylist. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair is red and curly. Her white eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Adventurer, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His red hair is heavily combed to the left. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 190 gp. Amber (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her purple hair is thinning but still full. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bryseis grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the east were limited. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This man tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Terse. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He carries a battered glaive and tarnished whip as well. His blue hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise white. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His childhood dream was to be a Architect, but he was a colossal failure. He has achieved small success as a Spy.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 11000 cp. Amber (150 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a very tight haircut. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He found a children's book about a Half-Orc Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.