Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He has no hair. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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 wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Hematite (10 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a black shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and red pants. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Bertram 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. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born to a Roofer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shipwright. Being a Shipwright 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: To be a Roofer again; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Emerald (500 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: An older woman who wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her skin is flawless and her violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Optimist, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her scimitar with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is an epitome of beauty. With bright chestnut hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her amber eyes.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Hadwisa is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 700 gp.