Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he is typically in his Spice Merchant uniform. His hair is silver and curly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Spice Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He's also a talented Courier, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 90 pp. Eye agate (5 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His hair is short and black. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born to a Unemployed, his father struggled to pay the bills. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Zook and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp. 2 Thunderstones. 4 Smokesticks. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: 4'0" and muscular, this eastern man wears a brown tunic with red highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has a very tight haircut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with tan slacks. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Conrad grew up listening to his father's many stories. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.