Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His tied-back hair is chestnut. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Gruk hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Gruk was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student he started as a Cartwright, but he got bored and became a Spice Merchant. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length black hair. He has hazel eyes and a violet hat with a green feather.

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 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. Rurik abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. 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's repulsed by the PC; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 360 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is in excellent shape and has the majority of his body covered in plate. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born into a rich family. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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 money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Azurite (11 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp).

Description: An older man who is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, he is not a threatening figure. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise silver.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has worked as a Banker like his father before him.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and very much looks the part of a Shipwright. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Názkûga was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Debt. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1000 gp.