Description: This man wears baggy brown pantaloons and a tan scarf, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His red hair is still thick. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He uses divination through singing.

History: He got into the Merchant business at a young age. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has achieved small success as a Merchant.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 pp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'10". He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Emerald (600 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp).

Description: An older man who is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, he is not a threatening figure. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Arannis 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 Arannis. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 4000 gp. Moonstone (50 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1300 gp.