Description: He is a mite stocky and is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Doctor. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Moss agate (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). 1 Smokesticks.

Description: This woman is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her right hand. Her brown hair is braided into rings. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Spice Merchant profession.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Katherine was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Soapmaker. She has achieved small success as a Soapmaker.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and balancing her hectic life and new soapmaker responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 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 he is greedy

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp).

Description: She has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her tan robe. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson brown hat.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in the east to a Cook, Oriel learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Cook. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Cook.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 6000 sp.