Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has wavy red hair. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Stylist work with an outfit from a few towns over. Stylist work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 400 pp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (170 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

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. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Hadarai was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1000 gp. Black pearl (1200 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Erdan liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He struck the Spice Merchant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.