Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. His skin is dark but he possesses many violet ritualistic tattoos. He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a greatsword on his belt. His hair is cut close to his head. He is baby faced.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. After a long history of fighting, Zed and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 11000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears white trousers with violet and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His golden hair is long and unkept. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Born to a Bookbinder, his father struggled to pay the bills. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Poor, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her bastard sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. Her hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 60 gp. Sard (50 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears professional attire. Her hair is blue and curly. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 80 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he very much looks the part of a Seamstress. His brown hair is cut short. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. He carries a battered ceremonial dagger and tarnished greatsword as well. He has shaved his head bald. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, illithids burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying west to reunite his family. He has worked as a Healer like his mother before him.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 120 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp).

Description: This northern woman wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair is white and very short. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 100 gp.