Description: He is lean but muscular and dresses well, wearing grey shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Being a Layabout kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: An older man who wears violet trousers with tan and red striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, he is not a threatening figure. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Anselm grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Human compassion; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Selfish, Secretive, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: Star ruby (900 gp). Amber (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a green cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his 16th 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. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his longbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He refers to his adoptive mother 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: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp.