Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is long and golden with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Bertram was born with his father's beautiful face. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). Being a Spice Merchant 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: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears grey trousers with brown and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Roger was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

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.

Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Military. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1700 sp. Rose (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Banded mail. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He wears a simple green robe with red stripes complete with hood. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Bernard hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Gifted from a young age, Bernard studied abroad. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered drow who tried to eat his hand. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2700 sp. Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Malachite (13 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A gifted student he started as a Miner, but he got bored and became a Hunter. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Hunter.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His ears are large.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is greedy

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2300 sp. 1 Half-Plate.