Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His violet leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. 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: He was born into a rich family. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1300 gp. Moonstone (70 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Obsidian (9 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body and is in decent physical shape. He has wavy chestnut hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He takes great joy in being the best Merchant in town.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 18000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Lucan enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 700 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears skinny pants and wears a red and white robe with the hood down. He is an epitome of beauty. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ahvain studied abroad. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ahvain grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ahvain. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black pearl (600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.