Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Pog was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She wears her red hair up. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born in the south to a Layabout, Nella learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She tends to her Layabout job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She carries with her a set of lances, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. In her youth she was a Mercenary, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. 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. Alain fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Forgetful, PTSD, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 7000 cp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp).