Description: He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings, and carries quarterstaffs. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 900 gp. Peridot (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Jasper (60 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is long and blonde with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small green clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the left. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Courier profession.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A gifted student he started as a Courier, but he got bored and became a Slave Trader. He has worked as a Slave Trader like his mother before him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He very much looks the part of a Shoemaker. His golden hair is singed and shortened. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Wiggens isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. He's also a talented Bather, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 40 gp.