Description: He is a husky man, who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He hates Tieflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Pelaios was born with his mother's beautiful face. A gifted student he started as a Detective, but he got bored and became a Healer. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She struck the Jeweler job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This woman wears tattered old clothes, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her rusty crest is knotted and matted. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Mason. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is a great chef.

History: Furrele was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She's also a talented Baker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Debt. Occupation: Mason

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. Cumpen is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 380 gp. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He has red eyes.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Nithther never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp).

Description: This woman dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with grey slacks, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her red hair is matted, messy, and big. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Junk Dealer. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman has the majority of her body covered in plate and is in decent physical shape. With wild chestnut hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1900 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor and is in decent physical shape. His copper crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Greethen lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Greethen 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 Greethen. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 150 gp. Malachite (9 gp).

Description: Standing 6'7", this man wears a green vest and prefers tan and yellow shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His red hair is braided into rings. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Kairon is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born in a small plains village. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 sp.