Description: An older man who wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs, he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his black hair in a flapper bob. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. 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: A strong sense of loyalty to Human people; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This dark-skinned male wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is short and black. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Bather arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and many gnolls want her driven away

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 6000 sp. Alexandrite (700 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Banded agate (16 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Ermina hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ermina 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 Ermina. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.