Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is pastel, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in a small island village. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 160 gp. Jasper (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she has a large tan mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. Her hair is chestnut and very short. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She tends to her Herbalist job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To be a Farmer again; and balancing her hectic life and new herbalist responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a violet suit, brown shirt, and grey tie, and he perpetually has his rapier ready. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Peter grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Peter. Being a Body Guard kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man usually wears his blue robe and has his crossbow always slung over his shoulder and is in decent physical shape. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Varis never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is wearing a long, blue cloak. He carries with him a set of shortspears, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His skin is flawless and his green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Soveliss was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Priest. 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. Soveliss fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles.