Description: This tall, slender man wears bulky red painted plate armor. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He took after his mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his mother taught him to defend himself. When his mother died while fighting orcs, the young Bucklal began to lead the lost caravan. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a robe, a symbol of magic around his neck, and a scimitar on his belt. His crest is short and scarlet. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: He is a Butcher first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Rich, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1300 gp. Black pearl (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Carnelian (60 gp).

Description: This southern man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. This hazel eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the south. Bucklal was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Slave Trader. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 60000 cp. Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is mildly Gnome supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born in the west. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Zaffrab was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and gnomish compassion

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2000 sp. Alexandrite (300 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Born in the west to a Butcher, Heward learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is greedy; and balancing his hectic life and new butcher responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 160 gp.