Description: This malnourished man wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Heian was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He struck the Spice Merchant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: He wears bulky blue painted plate armor. He is physically well-built. His brown hair is still thick. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Dayereth grew up listening to his mother's many stories. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Marshal. He has achieved small success as a Marshal.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 6000 sp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born in a small desert village. Theren was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Theren decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1800 pp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Amethyst (80 gp). Rose (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Sard (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Jade (80 gp). Peridot (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'11" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears black trousers with white and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Varis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Justice. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 3000 gp. Onyx (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Coral (110 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Sard (70 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Coral (110 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Sard (70 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He keeps his auburn hair in a flapper bob. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Adran lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Performer they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Mercenary, and he later adopted a second son.

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; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1600 gp.