Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His silver crest has been sun bleached extensively. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Beggar arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Deep green spinel (100 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears his brown hair up. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. 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: To get a good night's sleep; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His hair is auburn and curly. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Mercenary 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: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Butcher who has hired him part-time. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Healer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Butcher, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She is physically well-built. She has moderate length white hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 300 gp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.