Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a simple green robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. His beige fur is singed and shortened. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Aura will drive conversation. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bowyer. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1300 pp. Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Amber (50 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Amethyst (50 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears suspenders and pastel workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time, and is pretty ugly. His head has been shaved. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 5000 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Coral (110 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Jet (110 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Jet (110 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Red garnet (110 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Fire opal (400 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and usually wears his white robe and has his rapier always slung over his shoulder. His red fur, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are copper and beady.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. Being a Sailor kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 12000 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (80 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (80 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has white hair. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. 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, Zook is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Zook was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has worked as a Spice Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 15000 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp).

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He carries a battered greatsword and tarnished greataxe as well. He has a very tight haircut. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He uses divination through singing.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents were killed by drow in a raid when he was still a young child. The drow captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.