Description: This southern man very much looks the part of a Engraver. His clothes are grease stained in places. His golden hair is knotted and matted. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. A gifted student he started as a Fortune-teller, but he got bored and became a Engraver. He struck the Engraver job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He's in love; and balancing his hectic life and new engraver responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Body Guard. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly swords and shortspears. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her childhood dream was to be a Hunter, but she was a colossal failure. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Body Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Hematite (9 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Jet (130 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She likes to wear brown tank tops with red skirt. Her black fur, when down, is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: Born to a Masseuse, her father struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Server hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

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

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a green deerstalker hat and green clothes. Her brass crest, when down, is lengthy. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gold eyes.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Quespa never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This eastern woman wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older woman who wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a violet coat, she is not a threatening figure. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Layabout. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Layabout for hire.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away; and she feels threatened by others

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He usually wears his white robe and has his sickle always slung over his shoulder. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears grey trousers with tan and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His hair is cut close to his head. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Gerard took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up flail and armor he uses now. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length scarlet crest. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of drow may trigger it at times.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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. Being a Performer 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: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 gp.