Description: This tall, slender man wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He keeps his black hair in a flapper bob. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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 obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. After coming to the age of reason, Cory took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Guy was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Through the years after Guy was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Guy's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man wears a fancy grey suit. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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 Spice Merchant. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a brown vest and prefers pastel and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Guy was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Sardonyx (30 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He is portly but not overly obese. His brown hair is singed and shortened. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Insane. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Eastern European accent

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