Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Hadarai was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when he was still a young child. The gnolls captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has achieved small success as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1900 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a green and grey handkerchief worn on his left side. He is physically well-built. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Hadarai will drive conversation. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Hadarai has worked very hard to control his curse. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he has a crush on the local bather

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 pp. Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a grey tunic with green highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Lamlis 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. Lamlis 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 always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 200 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 7000 sp. Alexandrite (700 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has a very tight haircut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He is a Slaad in disguise. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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 is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 200 pp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp).