Description: This man wears skinny pants and wears a green and grey robe with the hood down, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. 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 a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again.

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 9000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a Sailor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Adam 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. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Bonds: Job, Religious, Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears bulky yellow painted plate armor. He carries with him a set of kukris, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has a very tight haircut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. A true patriot, William would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Carnelian (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has shaved his head bald. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 20000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.