Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. Her brown hair is thinning but still full. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp. Sard (80 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Fire opal (900 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman tends to wear a large yellow jacket. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Lia was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Lia's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she is content

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a green shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her black hair is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise white.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: She was born in the west. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 40 pp. White pearl (40 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has wavy auburn hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Masseuse business.

History: Baern was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Masseuse for hire.

Motivation: 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; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 300 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp).