Description: An older man who wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Ghaliver is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Layabout profession.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. A freak accident while working with his Layabout father left him crippled. He bought a lance and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 100 gp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'0". He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His head has been shaved. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born to a Fletcher, his father struggled to pay the bills. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. After a long history of fighting, Ûkshak and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Animal Trainer. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a Tailor, his father struggled to pay the bills. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Poor, In love. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'7" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 19. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. The war was a terrible time for him, and Varis does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. Red garnet (120 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses well, wearing pastel shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His fur is lavender and very short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. She has gold eyes and a black hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 6000 cp. Chrysoberyl (140 gp).

Description: She wears bulky black painted plate armor. She carries with her a set of nunchakus, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her white hair is heavily combed to the left. Her white eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born in the east. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 11000 cp. Hematite (14 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. She has hazel eyes and a black hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: She was born in the west. Her parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when she was still a young child. The dire rats captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly scythes and kukris. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Mercenary. The war was a terrible time for him, and Dalgal does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Dalgal was raised in a hard working conservative environment. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.