Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has moderate length silver hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Faran was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Faran decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A 3'4" eastern man, he wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. 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: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1200 sp. Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: 6'3" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a grey tunic with green highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Emotional, Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 30 gp. Tourmaline (100 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has golden hair. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His red crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Pirithin 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 Pirithin. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears long strands of jet and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. 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: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her beige fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has gleaming, smiling copper eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Shadow was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 310 gp. Rose (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a black collared shirt and yellow skirt. She accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She keeps her long green crest kept up in a rat tail. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She worked as a nervous Scribe and found it very stressful. She tends to her Scribe job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Banded mail.