Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears his brown hair up. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 12000 sp. Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a brown tunic with white highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his right hand. His silver hair is knotted and matted. He has green eyes and a brown hat with a white feather.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. The war was a terrible time for him, and Kody does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. When Kody reached his early adolescence his Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Depressed, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he's in love

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Slave, In love. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 19000 sp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is an epitome of beauty. His black hair is thinning but still full. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. 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: He is greedy; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 45000 sp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, tan shirt, and blue tie, and he perpetually has his hand crossbow ready. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ernest grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 17000 cp.