Description: This southern man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Melech hails from a village terrorized by brigands. His parents were killed by brigands in a raid when he was still a young child. The brigands captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of a Knight, who enjoyed hunting, Názkûga was taken on many hunting expeditions. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has worked as a Assassin like his father before him.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and someone believes him a fraud

Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Nature, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 cp. Red-brown spinel (100 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears skinny pants and wears a black and white robe with the hood down. Her hair is purple and very short. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. 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 would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and many brigands want her driven away

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with black slacks. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Elysande was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Elysande 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 Elysande. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Seamstress for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Seraphina was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She has achieved small success as a Cook.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1 Good lock.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. He has a hunchback. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Dain is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. She carries with her a set of nunchakus on her belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. With wild blonde hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Emmeline fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. His purple hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He has black eyes and a green hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Cartwright hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. A gifted student she started as a Shoemaker, but she got bored and became a Roofer. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Roofer responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: In love, Job, Military. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 70 gp.