Description: He tends to wear a large blue jacket. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Ernest enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Ernest was born the youngest of three triplets. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and doesn't want to be a spice merchant and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He is physically well-built. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and balancing his hectic life and new cartwright responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This western man typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. His clothes are grease stained in places. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed, Forgetful, Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 20000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His head has been shaved. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. 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: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. 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: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp.