Description: He wears a simple blue robe with black stripes complete with hood. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortbows and crossbows. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length golden hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Alston's homeland. Alston decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Alston fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Coral (90 gp).

Description: She wears bulky black painted plate armor. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Lezre was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Lezre decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His purple hair is knotted and matted. His white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Server arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Andram was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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 money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Rich, Military. Occupation: Server

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a grey tunic with violet highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Beatrice wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Druid, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Beatrice was born with her mother's beautiful face. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Beatrice never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Religious, In love, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her black hair is braided into rings. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born to a Animal Trainer, her father struggled to pay the bills. Through the years after Rosamund was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Rosamund's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 60 gp.