Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears baggy blue pantaloons and a green scarf. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has green eyes and a blue hat with a green feather.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Through the years after Anthony was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Anthony's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Shy, Disease, Antagonistic. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his greatsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Citrine (50 gp). Jade (70 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. He has a hunchback. He has moderate length red hair. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 56. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Spice Merchant profession.

History: Peter was born the youngest of three triplets. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 44000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a grey armored body suit, with a simple red line shooting up and back down, he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He refers to his adoptive father 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: Justin was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Pacifist, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: He has a missing right arm. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Gilbert hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He uses divination through singing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gilbert studied abroad. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.