Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Spice Merchant. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. At some point he was captured by orcs and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand his business; and a deep hatred of orcs

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 2300 gp. Red garnet (150 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Star ruby (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his top green hat.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and expand his business

Flaws: Mundane, Impulsive, Addict. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 13000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 4'11" and wears a white coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His white hair is still thick. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. 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: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the north. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2800 gp. Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Amber (150 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Coral (150 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears long strands of topaz and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is cut close to his head. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Lamlis embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and balancing his hectic life and new herbalist responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1400 gp. Amber (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a grey scarf. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Ivellios was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new adventurer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 2300 gp.