Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spice Merchant. She has moderate length black hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Birel embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Elves. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born in the south. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Elven conditions. She has achieved small success as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His hair is short and red. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Hoglik is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This woman wears a brown shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and brown pants, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She has violet eyes.

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. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born in a small desert village. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 400 sp. Hematite (7 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. She carries with her a set of halberds on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He has a hunchback. He keeps his golden hair in a flapper bob. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Foxilon is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in the north to a Weaver, Foxilon learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a white shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and white pants, and a wedding ring on his right hand. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. After coming to the age of reason, Howard took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Insane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: 6'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Cairn was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 sp. Citrine (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She is a Locksmith first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Orla was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.