Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is baby faced.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. 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: Born to a Sculptor, his father struggled to pay the bills. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Spice Merchant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears bulky tan painted plate armor, and carries ceremonial daggers. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Tanglefoot bags. 1 Antitoxin. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is dressed in earthy colors with a green and grey handkerchief worn on his left side. His white hair is still thick. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: Bernard speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Bernard was born with his father's beautiful face. 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 became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears baggy green pantaloons and a brown scarf, marred by sweets. His tied-back hair is blonde. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Theodoric's homeland. Theodoric decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1500 sp. Red-brown spinel (110 gp). 1 Superior lock. 1 Masterwork manacles. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a brown shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gifted student he started as a Mortician, but he got bored and became a Fortune-teller. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.