Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears silk and lounges about seductively, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His white crest is smooth and relatively long. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Nykkan never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 190 gp. Moss agate (15 gp). Malachite (15 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light green in addition to tight pants. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 20000 cp. Blue quartz (7 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp).

Description: He wears a simple blue robe with brown stripes complete with hood. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is chestnut and curly. His eyes are blue.

Personality: Ar-Karo hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. 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: He comes from a rich eastern family. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Eye agate (16 gp). Canary diamond (5000 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He usually wears his blue robe and has his spear always slung over his shoulder. He wears his brown hair up. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Miller arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 500 sp.