Description: This dark-skinned male wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 4000 gp. Violet garnet (600 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Citrine (30 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he is wearing a long, blue cloak. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born to a Spice Merchant, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 200 pp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (50 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; 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: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is renowned for his bright grey suits and hats. He carries with him a set of hand crossbows, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Engraver arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1000 gp. Rock crystal (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. 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 is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 800 gp. Peridot (70 gp). Rose (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). 1 Superior lock. 1 Spyglass. 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Climber’s kit.