Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears tattered old clothes. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, In love. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Jade (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears skinny pants and wears a blue and green robe with the hood down, he is not a threatening figure. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed blue hat.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Bertram was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Bookbinder. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts. Her white hair is still thick. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She is a Yochlol in disguise. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Being a Brewer kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

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 to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'4" and has the majority of his body covered in plate. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His brown hair is braided into rings. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Gifted from a young age, Tim studied abroad. 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 was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp.