Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He is portly but not overly obese. His white crest is thinning but still full. He wears large thick round spectacles.

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 uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Secretive, Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: This southern man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady black eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1100 gp. Azurite (8 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He carries with him a set of lances on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Zephan was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Zephan decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 12000 sp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Gildmak was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Gildmak's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gildmak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Architect

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born to a Shoemaker, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her parents enrolled her in a Cleric school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 700 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. His crest is gold and curly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mugrunden grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He struck the Dilettante job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To be a Assassin again; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1900 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'6" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. The war was a terrible time for him, and Frederick does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 500 gp. Star ruby (600 gp).