Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears baggy green pantaloons and a black scarf. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His hair is blonde and curly. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He worked as a nervous Butcher and found it very stressful. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Erdan never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to be a performer again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 4000 gp. Onyx (80 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has achieved small success as a Marshal.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Red spinel (110 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1000 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp).