Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is typically in his Spice Merchant uniform. His auburn hair is cut short. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

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 Interpreter father left him crippled. He struck the Spice Merchant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 600 gp. Malachite (13 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'2" and wears a fancy green suit. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is blonde and very short. This violet eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: He is content; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His green crest is still thick. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is content; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Full Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a pastel coat. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

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 is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his left hand. He has shaved his head bald. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.