Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull white iron scale mail. He has no hair. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. 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: 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 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is wearing a long, white, dusty cloak. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her small white hat.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Herleva was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Locksmith for hire.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and balancing her hectic life and new locksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 600 gp. Amethyst (130 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with yellow colored cloaks and clothing. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is mildly Human supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: Raymond was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; 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: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. Sard (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). 1 Holy water. 2 Smokesticks. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with violet lining and desert motifs. His hair is long and blonde with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small violet clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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, Bernard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Bernard was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He struck the Shoemaker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 30000 cp. Chrysoberyl (60 gp).