Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His black eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Thamuz alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. He has done his best to style his blue hair to look like a famous performer. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He found a children's book about a Tiefling Ranger 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1800 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Jet (150 gp). Iolite (70 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her golden hair is cut short. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She is a Spy first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She tends to her Spy job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Zâthra's homeland. Zâthra decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 200 sp.