Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears an entirely black suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He wears his silver hair down. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his silver eyes.

Personality: He is a Butcher first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. Mantus was born on a far northern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Butcher. Being a Butcher 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: Wants to raise his children well; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears skinny pants and wears a tan and brown robe with the hood down, and she perpetually has her greatsword ready. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Traulam was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Traulam decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Chrysoprase (40 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp).

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He usually wears his grey robe and has his sai always slung over his shoulder. He has no hair. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His childhood dream was to be a Doctor, but he was a colossal failure. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands.

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: Standing 6'5", this man prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He bought a shortbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 200 pp. Gold and ruby ring (5000 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (60 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). Silver ewer (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears professional attire. He keeps his copper crest in a pixie cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

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 also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has achieved small success as a Detective.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 5000 gp. Sard (50 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat, she is not a threatening figure. Her orange fur is knotted and matted. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 31000 sp. Moonstone (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears tan trousers with black and tan striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She is portly but not overly obese. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a large cave. She would wander through that large cave 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 island due to the painful memories there. Salanop took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up sword and armor she uses now. She became a Body Guard soon after.

Motivation: To protect her home; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted, Extrovert. Bonds: Nature, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his silver hair down. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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: He comes from a rich eastern family. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has achieved small success as a Ruler.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp).