Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he dresses like a well dressed Spice Merchant does. His hair is short and silver. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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 Spice Merchant. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Violet garnet (300 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a scimitar, but if one is not available he will default to his sickle. His hair is short and silver. His ears are large.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Coral (110 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Black star sapphire (1600 gp). Blue sapphire (1600 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with red slacks. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Aust was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (30 gp). A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2500 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.