Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is light but he possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He is a Jackalwere in disguise. A gifted student he started as a Marshal, but he got bored and became a Sellsword. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Sellsword for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. The war was a terrible time for her, and Anastrianna does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. 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 seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 90 gp. Rose (70 gp).

Description: She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'10" when asserting herself. Her cinnamon fur is still thick. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Five took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up club and armor she uses now. She bought a club and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and she has money and likes to spend it

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Rich, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears just a tan suit. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 14000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a simple violet robe with black stripes complete with hood. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Guard arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His white hair is singed and shortened. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His crest is short and copper. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heskan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and carries quarterstaffs. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is content; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Forgetful, Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. She carries with her a set of morningstars, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her fur is cut close to her head. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aura studied abroad. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.