Description: This light-skinned male wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Varis 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 Varis. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 9000 cp. Obsidian (5 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a mace, but if one is not available he will default to his shortbow, marred by chocolates. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. The war was a terrible time for him, and Pirithin does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Pirithin was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Pirithin decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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 feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This man wears a black costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. He is baby faced.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This light-skinned male wears a grey collared shirt and yellow pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and doesn't want to be a map maker and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'9". She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 80 gp.