Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He is an epitome of beauty. His blonde hair is cut short. He has gray eyes and a blue hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born in the north to a Assassin, Erky learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Erky grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Erky. He struck the Assassin job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1500 gp. Eye agate (9 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Sard (30 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has slicked back blonde hair. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Her first spouse was a Sellsword, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and doesn't want to be a bookbinder and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: In love, Job, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 2900 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His first spouse was a Actor, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature glaive.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 500 pp. Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp).

Description: She wears dull tan sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed halberd, just in case. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

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. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Callybon has worked very hard to control her curse. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Professionalism, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears white trousers with grey and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Carter who has hired him part-time. 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 was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1700 sp. Rock crystal (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp).

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, black shirt, and brown tie. He carries with him a set of rapiers, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is cut close to his head. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He worked as a nervous Shipwright and found it very stressful. He's also a talented Interpreter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Interpreter again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'5" and wears silk and lounges about seductively. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. William is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 260 pp. A small bag of saffron. (70 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (160 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (160 gp).