Description: This man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered east to less war torn lands. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Silk rope.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears an entirely white suit with pastel socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Jet (100 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her brown hair, when down, is lengthy. Her silver eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Lazy, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (8 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp).

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.