Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Arnold was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Animal Trainer. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing a long, pastel, dusty cloak, and is pretty ugly. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Miles was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Unemployed for the past few years.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Debt, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 12000 sp. Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. He is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around his ears. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Spice Merchant. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. 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: Gifted from a young age, Bernard studied abroad. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a yellow coat. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. Cory enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Slave, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Moss agate (11 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.