Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is typically in his Cook uniform. His golden hair and beard is wavy and long. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His childhood dream was to be a Shipwright, but he was a colossal failure. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is long and golden with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His mother, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spice Merchant and was forced into it by his family; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Blue quartz (5 gp). Amber (70 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp).

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and a deep hatred of illithids

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: This man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. 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 Painter. He has achieved small success as a Painter.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Bonds: Guardian, Has a crush, Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 40 pp. Rich purple corundum (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp).