Description: This southern man wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his green eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Bertram 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. A gifted student he started as a Performer, but he got bored and became a Merchant. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Merchant for hire.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 800 sp. Blue quartz (10 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has wavy golden hair. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Shoemaker mother left him crippled. 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: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He keeps his red hair in a flapper bob. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is a great chef.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a pastel collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has achieved small success as a Stylist.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 230 gp. 1 Everburning torch.