Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a pastel collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has brown hair. He has gray eyes and a pastel hat with a black feather.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1800 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (160 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'7" and muscular, this eastern man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His silver hair is knotted and matted. He has gleaming, smiling white eyes.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Tiefling culture. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Balam was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Balam 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. Balam 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: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 20000 cp. Amethyst (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Eye agate (15 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

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 vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Bulzo hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Bulzo was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mortician. He became a Mortician soon after.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks. His brass crest is still thick. His gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. The war was a terrible time for him, and Direcris does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Direcris was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Shoemaker. He tends to his Shoemaker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 160 gp. Tourmaline (100 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears grey trousers with brown and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Banker and was forced into it by his family; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Blue quartz (8 gp).