Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, green shirt, and black tie. His silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Manfred is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Manfred lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He struck the Spice Merchant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Bonds: Job, Family, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a red shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and green pants. Her auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Performer business.

History: Elysande was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Paladin, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Paladin in service of a powerful lord somewhere. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 4000 sp. Hematite (5 gp).

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She sports red long hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. Her childhood dream was to be a Tanner, but she was a colossal failure. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 400 gp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Azurite (16 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.