Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears brown trousers with blue and white striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her brown hair, when down, is lengthy. This violet eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born in the north to a Spice Merchant, Jane learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Spice Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her tied-back hair is silver. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 3000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Coral (70 gp).

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he prefers to wear flannel. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Simon was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He worked as a nervous Tanner and found it very stressful. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Poor, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears professional attire. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Bookbinder but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1000 sp. Alexandrite (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Jet (80 gp). Black pearl (500 gp).