Description: This northern man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Tharivol lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He wants to get laid.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (50 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a white coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Theren is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the west. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 5000 gp. Pink pearl (50 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Herbalist. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Nutae enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A gifted student he started as a Spice Merchant, but he got bored and became a Herbalist. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 300 pp. A roughly beaten golden orb (80 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (60 gp).