Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. His hair is white and very short. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has a hunchback. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Crown-heir business.

History: Randal was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. A gifted student he started as a Layabout, but he got bored and became a Crown-heir. 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: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a layabout again

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Slave Trader but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Justin was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Justin has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Professionalism, Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 600 gp. Emerald (1100 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). 1 Average lock. 1 Silk rope. 1 Good lock. 1 Superior lock.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2700 sp.

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing a long, brown cloak and is in decent physical shape. He has styled his silver hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Alex was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. 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. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Alex fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's in love; and 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

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Darkwood Shield.