Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he tends to wear a large brown jacket. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of orcs may trigger it at times.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Gunter was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Bonds: Guardian, Enemies, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp. Black pearl (900 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Amber (150 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears blue trousers with black and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and is pretty ugly. His silver hair is matted, messy, and big. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Arnold was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Arnold decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Optimist, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Full Plate.

Description: He tends to wear a large red jacket. He is physically well-built. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. A true patriot, Gerald would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Military, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: This man dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with white slacks, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He got into the Layabout business at a young age. A gifted student he started as a Barber, but he got bored and became a Layabout. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Job, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 gp. Eye agate (4 gp). Jet (160 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp).