Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears just a grey suit. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Vondal hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Carter work with an outfit from a few towns over. Carter work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to gnolls.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it.

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Born in the west to a Mayor, Mary learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Mayor and found it very stressful. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature dagger.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 260 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: He sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His hair is black and very short. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. 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 east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 3 Acid flasks.

Description: This man wears bulky tan painted plate armor. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Qualen has worked very hard to control his curse. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears professional attire, and she perpetually has her club ready. She keeps her long dark red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: Sorath hails from a village terrorized by giants. At a young age her mother died while driving off some giants. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in club use. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 9000 sp.

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 light armors faded through time and improper care. His red hair is heavily combed to the right. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Einkil was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Einkil decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Professionalism, Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Sardonyx (60 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with violet colored cloaks and clothing. His tied-back hair is auburn. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Through the years after Aust was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Aust's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1200 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a grey tunic with black highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed grey hat.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Born in the east to a Detective, Torbera learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Torbera abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Detective for hire.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is her passion; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears a brown shirt, with a yellow mid length skirt with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'9" when asserting herself. She has chestnut hair. She has blue eyes and a brown hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

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 psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she's in love

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1000 sp.