Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a simple brown robe with red stripes complete with hood. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He then took over the family business and is one of the better Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

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. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She's also a talented Soapmaker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears suspenders and yellow workpants. His shirt is tan, and he wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is short and white. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 4'9", this woman wears dark leathers with embroidery. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She comes from a rich western family. In her youth she was a Weaver, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger sister on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rohesia fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.