Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is typically in his Spice Merchant uniform. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. The war was a terrible time for him, and Alexandre does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants, marred by sweets. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a white coat. His hair is short and golden. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Tim was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears grey leather gloves, a grey jacket, and tight pants. She sports golden long hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She took after her father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her father taught her to defend herself. When her father died while fighting orcs, the young Melissa began to lead the lost caravan. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and she wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 500 gp. Moss agate (15 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Masterwork manacles.