Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a blue coat. His hair is short and chestnut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Erevan hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Erevan alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Erevan was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Deep green spinel (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her bronze crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She tends to her Dyer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She usually wears her black robe and has her trident always slung over her shoulder, and carries tridents. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Gaaki was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gaaki fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 20 pp. Red spinel (70 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'1" when asserting herself. She has rusty crest. She has a dull look in her red eyes.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Farideh 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 Farideh. Being a Tailor 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: An old rival family wants her found; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 sp. Azurite (12 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'8" and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her yellow fur is heavily combed to the right. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her yellow eyes.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. 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: Quick was born with her father's beautiful face. Quick was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Quick decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. 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: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He wears a colorful flower in his lavender fur. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are yellow.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Expand his business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 30 gp. Jade (80 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a fancy brown suit. He has a very tight haircut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Ernest was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical, Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Jet (40 gp). 3 Antitoxin.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She likes to wear red tank tops with blue skirt. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Paela was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Spy and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is her passion; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 130 gp.