Description: This slender man stands about 3'3". He typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His auburn hair is lengthy. He has brown eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Merchant work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. After a long history of fighting, Hobart and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 340 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. She wears her silver hair down. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. A true patriot, Eva would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Eva was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When Eva reached her early adolescence her Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eva fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She wears a grey vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her grey boots flare out at the collars. She carries with her a set of falchions, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Alston 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. Alston decided he wanted neither the life of his mother 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. 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: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is his passion; and 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

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp).