Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a red costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Dwarven culture. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Altho was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Layabout. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Dwarven compassion.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears tattered old clothes. She has dyed her greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She uses divination through singing.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Ridaro was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the south were limited. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 6000 cp. Rhodochrosite (7 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. 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 unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has shaved his head bald. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. He found a children's book about a Dwarf Fighter who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He bought a sword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 40 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (10 gp).