Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His head has been shaved. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Gormogord is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is a great chef.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. His childhood dream was to be a Shipwright, but he was a colossal failure. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 120 gp. Red spinel (40 gp).

Description: He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished hammer as well. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are white and beady.

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 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: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 sp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears an entirely black suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He is a Masseuse first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. The war was a terrible time for him, and Sammal does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Sammal was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When Sammal reached his early adolescence his Tiefling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His long blonde hair reaches down to his waist. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

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 also has developed a complete distrust of the Crown-heir profession.

History: Grom was born with his father's beautiful face. He married young, but lost his spouse to goblins. He has achieved small success as a Bowyer.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Emotional, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears professional attire. Her blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Orla was born on a far northern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Soapmaker. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 190 gp. Coral (60 gp).

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His blue hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Cairn lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His crest is short and green. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. The war was a terrible time for him, and Vrondiss does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When Vrondiss reached his early adolescence his Dragonborn mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a black shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and tan pants. He has dyed his greying brass crest a little too much giving a sharp brass color. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Shamash is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Shamash 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. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 130 gp.