Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Kody was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Red spinel (160 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Onyx (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'1". She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 60 pp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp).

Description: 6'1" and muscular, this southern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He worked as a nervous Barrister and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, brown shirt, and pastel tie. She carries with her a set of scimitars on her belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. Her auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. The war was a terrible time for her, and Giselle does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. After coming to the age of reason, Giselle took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.