Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull green iron scale mail. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was taken from his home at a very young age. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Spice Merchant. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Gifted from a young age, Heian studied abroad. 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. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 800 pp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears professional attire. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Erdan is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Erdan was born on a far southern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Cartwright. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.