Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He likes to wear blue tank tops with violet pants. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He became a Merchant soon after.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. 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: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He tends to his Spice Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'6" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Slave Trader. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

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 he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Slave Trader. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the right. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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: Born in the west to a Tanner, Justin learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Tanner. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a masseuse again

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He prefers to wear flannel. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

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. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He's also a talented Dyer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2100 sp.