Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He very much looks the part of a Beggar. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His long cinnamon fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: Cloud was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He's also a talented Bowyer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Beggar responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a white collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Gorgûm was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spice Merchant and was forced into it by his family; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a kukri, but if one is not available she will default to her hammer. Her long purple hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: Beleth is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

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

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is typically in his Masseuse uniform. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

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 always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1200 sp. Malachite (12 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His ears are large.

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 misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

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

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

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. Her red hair is thinning but still full. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She bought a club and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She wears a simple red robe with brown stripes complete with hood. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She bought a sword and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 6000 cp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).

Description: He wears a fancy black suit. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Prâk hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying south to reunite his family. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 gp. Black pearl (600 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. His white hair is still thick. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep silver.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. 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, Mormo is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Painter like his father before him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 500 sp.