Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Guard. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. He has a dull look in his gold eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Balam was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents enrolled him in a Wizard school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Balam was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a brown coat over a red low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. He has moderate length silver hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1200 gp. Black star sapphire (600 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). White opal (600 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Rich purple corundum (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times, marred by sweets. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Helja isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 390 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a pastel shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He keeps his long brown fur kept up in a rat tail. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: The child of a Scribe, who enjoyed hunting, Leaf was taken on many hunting expeditions. His parents enrolled him in a Bard school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He bought a sai and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Passionate, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 pp. Pink pearl (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She stands about 4'2" and dresses like a well dressed Bounty Hunter does. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Tordrid was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Forgetful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 20000 cp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp).