Description: A 3'4" eastern man, he wears a blue vest and prefers pastel and black shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His tied-back hair is blonde. His ears are large.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Alvyn 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 Alvyn. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a large grey jacket. He is physically well-built. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. 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: Gilbert was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: In love, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his monstrous two handed axe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was born in a small plains village. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a violet coat. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Chad was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Chad's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length white hair. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. His hair is long and black with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and 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

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. His hair is silver and curly. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He refers to his adoptive mother 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: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. Being a Map Maker kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 70 gp. Blue quartz (6 gp).

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a simple green robe with white stripes complete with hood. His silver crest is long and unkept. This gold eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is an amazing painter.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his youth he was a Bounty Hunter, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger brother on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 40 pp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp).