Description: This late middle aged man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress) and is in decent physical shape. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Banker profession.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Mindartis was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Map Maker. He tends to his Map Maker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp. Hematite (5 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Coral (50 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spice Merchant. He has auburn hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He takes great joy in being the best Spice Merchant in town.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Aelar was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Spice Merchant. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp).

Description: He wears bulky blue painted plate armor. He is portly but not overly obese. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. 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. Being a Farmer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

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

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 300 pp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a tight fitting pastel shirt and pants. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. 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 Barber. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is content

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 230 pp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his rapier with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair is silver and very short. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with dancing. He constantly tries to fill his life with dancing. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Mindartis was born on a far western plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Detective. 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.

Ideals: Artistic, Joker. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. White opal (1400 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.