Description: He prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. His brown hair is long and unkept. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He is a Shepherd first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His black hair is still thick. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Aramil was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 Cook. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Poor, Job, Mentor, Has a crush, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 gp. Aquamarine (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull green iron scale mail. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Spice Merchant born in the past three hundred years. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 7000 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'8". He wears green trousers with yellow and pastel striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and his gloved hand is found clutching a lance. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. 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: Vanuath lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 14000 gp. Gold and ruby ring (12000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (30 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (30 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (90 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (800 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a brown shirt with thin black vertical stripes and brown pants. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Theriatis hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. His childhood dream was to be a Fletcher, but he was a colossal failure. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 3000 sp. Hematite (8 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.