Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears just a black suit. His white hair is braided into rings. His black eyes peer out from beneath his small black hat.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Guardian. Occupation: Healer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears his brown hair down. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. 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: Gifted from a young age, Fivin studied abroad. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a pickaxe on his belt. He carries with him a set of pickaxes on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He wears his white hair down. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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 was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Gilbert has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gilbert fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and black handkerchief worn on her left side. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her lance, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Emmeline alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 6000 sp. Rich purple corundum (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his black robe. He has a hunchback. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a black vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her black boots flare out at the collars. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her broad black hat.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 30 pp. Star rose quartz (60 gp). 1 Hourglass.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who sports red clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Lavinia hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Lavinia 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 Lavinia. Being a Ploughman kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. 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. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family 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. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is content

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 150 gp.