Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tattered old clothes. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is obsessed with his god.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He's also a talented Detective, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older woman who is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, she is not a threatening figure. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Jade (140 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'10". She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has auburn hair. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed grey hat.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Galiena was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 150 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears brown trousers with black and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has done his best to style his yellow fur to look like a famous performer. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Right-Handed was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He worked as a nervous Apothecary and found it very stressful. He struck the Apothecary job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp).

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her auburn hair is well kept. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: Birel is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. Being a Servant 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: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His white crest is long and unkept. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Quarethon hails from a village terrorized by goblins. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

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

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears a blue Stetson hat and blue clothes. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson blue hat.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Herbalist who has hired him part-time. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born into a rich family. 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 seems to be bored by most things; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Banded agate (5 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His red hair is braided into rings. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Arnold was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He worked as a nervous Mercenary and found it very stressful. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 70 gp. Red garnet (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His ears are large.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Passionate, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 70 gp.