Description: This man is very fat, and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 11000 sp. Emerald (800 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He tends to wear a large white jacket. He wears his auburn hair down. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

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 loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His first spouse was a Apothecary, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He's also a talented Apothecary, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 8000 sp. Tourmaline (80 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears dull black sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed pickaxe, just in case. He has wavy silver hair. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He is a Jackalwere in disguise. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Red garnet (140 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Hematite (14 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. 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: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 160 pp. Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are amber.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Performer born in the past three hundred years. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He got into the Performer business at a young age. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is content; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Sard (40 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp).