Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears brown trousers with tan and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her silver hair is singed and shortened. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She tends to her Spice Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

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 balancing her hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1000 cp. Jade (70 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears just a white suit. She sports white long hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the south. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Golm was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears a brown tunic with white highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes, marred by sweets. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Unemployed they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Butcher, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Dragonborn people; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Butcher

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

Possessions: 400 gp. Violet garnet (700 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She carries a battered trident and tarnished longsword as well. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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 receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Aasathra abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Aasathra never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has a very tight haircut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Howard enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. He has brown eyes and a violet hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: Tharivol is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Roofer business.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her golden hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She uses divination through singing.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her divine abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts, and he perpetually has his trident ready. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He has gray eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Tod will drive conversation. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: Money/treasure; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 4000 sp.