Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a white shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and black pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, In love, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 4000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a red cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His red hair is braided into rings. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. 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: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 5000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Peridot (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in the west to a Cartwright, Aelar learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Cartwright.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 140 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He sports yellow clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Sporting a silver mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Adran was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

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 he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.