Description: This dark-skinned male typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull violet iron scale mail. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was born into a rich family. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. The war was a terrible time for her, and Marastyr does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in the east to a Sculptor, Marastyr learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. 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. After a long history of fighting, Marastyr and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and to be a ruler again

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Star ruby (700 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'8" and is renowned for his bright yellow suits and hats. His hair is long and golden with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. A true patriot, Gerard would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Gerard was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears skinny pants and wears a black and violet robe with the hood down. His crest is rusty and curly. He is baby faced.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Rivaan lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Seamstress they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Marshal, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 8000 sp. Rose (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is dark but he possesses many yellow ritualistic tattoos. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He struck the Carter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: 5'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Robert was born the youngest of three triplets. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To protect his home; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Guardian. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 7000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 6'4" and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Gifted from a young age, Thomas studied abroad. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thomas 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 Thomas. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 pp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (10 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a tight fitting blue shirt and pants, and is pretty ugly. Her blonde hair is wavy and long. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Gifted, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp).