Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Courier. He has a hunchback. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Naal was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student he started as a Herbalist, but he got bored and became a Courier. Being a Courier kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Dwarven compassion; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 40 gp. Blue quartz (10 gp).

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She is portly but not overly obese. She has purple hair. Her white eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 500 pp. Tourmaline (60 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Amber (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). Azurite (5 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears an entirely tan suit with violet socks and a vest with buckled shoes, she is not a threatening figure. Her auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Traulam was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. 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. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 900 sp. Deep green spinel (140 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. His head has been shaved. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Lorm lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature mace.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. Iolite (60 gp). Amber (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears an entirely tan suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born in the south to a Assassin, Azaki learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Assassin. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Azaki was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a simple brown robe with tan stripes complete with hood. He wears his beige fur up. This amber eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Barrister but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 100 gp. Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She wears her blonde hair up. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Katherine never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a brown vest and prefers black and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Adam liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 gp.