Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a black coat with tan slacks. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 200 gp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 80 gp. Coral (150 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his club with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His silver hair is matted, messy, and big. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 700 gp. Jet (100 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Jade (100 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker black hat.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is wearing a long, yellow cloak, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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 now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 310 gp.