Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears long strands of amber and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He is an epitome of beauty. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Courier arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Simon 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 Simon. 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 decided he is irredeemable.

Flaws: Addict, Terse. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, and she perpetually has her dagger ready. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Melissa grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature dagger.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and to be a layabout again

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 80 pp. Aquamarine (1200 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). Banded agate (10 gp).

Description: He likes to wear blue tank tops with tan pants. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His hair is chestnut and very short. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and to prove his worth to the world

Flaws: Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His tied-back hair is red. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Robert has worked very hard to control his curse. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: 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; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Iolite (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.