Description: This man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears his red fur down. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Guard arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 41. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: 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.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. His fur is short and cinnamon. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is an amazing painter.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bricklayer profession.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new seamstress responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and prefers to wear green clothing when he does not wear armor. His white hair is long and unkept. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are black.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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: Revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). 1 Superior lock.