Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is typically in his Scribe uniform. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and is pretty ugly. He has blonde hair. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush, Slave. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 60 pp. Rock crystal (50 gp).

Description: He wears long strands of opal and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and carries longbows. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Heward was born on a far western plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Dilettante. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heward fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 700 gp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. He wears his golden hair up. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Carter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gifted student he started as a Mercenary, but he got bored and became a Carter. He struck the Carter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new carter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Violet garnet (1100 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is in excellent shape and typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His brown hair is thinning but still full. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: Manfred was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 700 gp.