Description: Standing 5'1", this man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Family, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'8" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Arumawann 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 is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Soapmaker responsibilities is difficult; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt, and is pretty ugly. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Thamior hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 160 gp. Hematite (11 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His hair is cut close to his head. He has amber eyes and a black hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Efferil is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He carries with him a set of shortbows, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is chestnut and very short. He is baby faced.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Balimaar hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Balimaar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Enemies, In love. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: Just what you see.