Description: He typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. He has styled his dark red hair well, parting it to the left. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 3 Antitoxin.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Naal was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Naal never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: She wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a sickle, but if one is not available she will default to her dagger. She carries with her a set of daggers, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her blonde hair is wavy and long. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Engong lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and doesn't want to be a shoemaker and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

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. She carries a battered mace and tarnished lance as well. Her black hair is still thick. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Military, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around his ears. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born to a Cartwright, his father struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Unemployed hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Cartwright they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Unemployed, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a unemployed and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and blue handkerchief worn on her right side. She has wavy white hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Mardnab is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's in love; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 13000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'1" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Therai hails from a village terrorized by drow. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Therai alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He tends to his Carpenter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Job, Slave. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is renowned for her bright red dresses and hats. Her hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. She is baby faced.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Verna was born with her father's beautiful face. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. Being a Painter 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: To prove her worth to the world; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Emotional, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. His head has been shaved. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insane. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 700 sp. 4 Antitoxin.