Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ratanák 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 Ratanák. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her hair is short and dark red. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. 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: Hecat was born the youngest of three triplets. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bowyer they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Miner, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and carries falchions. She wears her lavender fur down. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She was granted druidic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. Her white fur is braided into rings. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Seven was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She tends to her Barber job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He keeps his long silver crest kept up in a rat tail. He is baby faced.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he's in love

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'7". He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His crest is red and curly. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. 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 was born several months after his father was called into army service. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military, Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Jade (70 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was born in the north. 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 east. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she wants revenge against illithids

Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She wears a yellow costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. She carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished kukri as well. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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 with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Arara never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. She keeps her black hair in a flapper bob. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 500 sp. Lapis lazuli (13 gp).