Description: He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with black slacks, and carries halberds. His hair is cut close to his head. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Skog fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Body Guard arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Dragonborn companion (her 'brother'). She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Everburning torch. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He bought a falchion and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tight fitting blue shirt and pants. He is physically well-built. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature halberd.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 40 gp. Eye agate (4 gp).

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'0" and wears dull grey sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed crossbow, just in case. Her hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Torgga was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She married young, but lost her spouse to orcs. She became a Baker soon after.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and revenge

Flaws: Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 370 gp. Jasper (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her hair is short and auburn. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Avelina 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 Avelina. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 10000 cp. Violet garnet (1300 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp).

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Birel is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Gifted from a young age, Birel studied abroad. Through the years after Birel was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Birel's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Server

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: This man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is white and curly. His eyes are gold.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Balam was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Shipwright. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears baggy red pantaloons and a blue scarf. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She sports blonde long hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. 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 got into the Crown-heir business at a young age. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Crown-heir. She has achieved small success as a Crown-heir.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 60 gp.