Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Fletcher profession.

History: Born in the east to a Scribe, Lamlis learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He worked as a nervous Scribe and found it very stressful. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 2000 gp. Hematite (8 gp). Emerald (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a pastel poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and he perpetually has his dagger ready. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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, Nim is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Nim was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Spice Merchant. He struck the Spice Merchant job and began his own company from there.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 pp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. His hair is short and auburn. His skin is flawless and his green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Merchant. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To be a Fletcher again; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.