Description: He is in excellent shape and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is long and golden with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. He has brown eyes and a brown hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. Being a Masseuse 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: Seeks redemption; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 230 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She usually wears her brown robe and has her glaive always slung over her shoulder. Her lavender fur is braided into rings. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with singing. She constantly tries to fill her life with singing. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 160 pp. Blue sapphire (500 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Sard (30 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp).

Description: He dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a black coat with blue slacks, and he perpetually has his hand crossbow ready. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Tailor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. 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. Aelar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Banded mail. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears long strands of opal and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has wavy brown hair. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; 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

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp. Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.