Description: 3'2" and muscular, this southern man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Born in the south to a Cook, Howard learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He struck the Cook job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his scythe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and carries scythes. His silver crest is lengthy. His eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: He is a Bricklayer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. The war was a terrible time for him, and Bharash does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Bharash was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bricklayer. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2300 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: An older man who is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, he is not a threatening figure. He sports a flattop hair cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Gilbert's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gilbert studied abroad. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 500 gp. Malachite (5 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and red, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. 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. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Tanner hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Chain shirt.