Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His blonde hair is braided into rings. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 50 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp).

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He refers to his adoptive father 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: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Baker they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Map Maker, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 800 gp. Chalcedony (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Star ruby (1300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp).

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He sports a flattop hair cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: This man loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His orange fur is matted, messy, and big. His copper eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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 always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Spice Merchant business.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 gp.