Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and he wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'5". She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She wears a colorful flower in her silver hair. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. 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: Mundane, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'3" when asserting himself. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. 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: Einkil was born with his father's beautiful face. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Secretive, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his right hand. His black hair is matted, messy, and big. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Galinndan is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 120 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her pickaxe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has wavy auburn hair. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She struck the Fisher job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Immigrant, Debt, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a white costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Mogg 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. Mogg 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 150 gp. Malachite (9 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman wears a grey vest and prefers white and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her hair is golden and very short. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her small grey hat.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Detective hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'3" when asserting himself. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Richard was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Richard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a pastel coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. She keeps her white fur in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

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. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp.