Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His long green crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Rathkran lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Slave Trader.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1000 cp. Sardonyx (20 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length white hair. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Joan hails from a village terrorized by drow. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'3". She usually wears her tan robe and has her ceremonial dagger always slung over her shoulder. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her orange fur is lengthy. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep copper.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. 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. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. She has gray eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. 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 born in the east. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Detective responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Disciplined, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'8" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a blue shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and red pants. Her black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Malquis was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She prefers to wear grey clothing when she does not wear armor. She has a hunchback. She wears her golden hair down. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Navigator but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Navigator. She has worked as a Navigator like her mother before her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Joker, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is always cut to a buzz. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Erias enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. 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. Erias fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Blue quartz (5 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 2'9" when asserting herself. Her long brown hair reaches down to her waist. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Bowyer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Secretive, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1100 sp.