Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a green coat with brown slacks. He has a hunchback. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is an amazing painter.

History: Thorin lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He's also a talented Beggar, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Red spinel (150 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Pink diamond (3000 gp). Emerald (900 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'0". He wears a black tunic with brown highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has chestnut hair. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born in the south. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aust grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Aust. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An older man who wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt, he is not a threatening figure. His crest, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. 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 to a Beggar, his mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Tailor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Aldous grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new bricklayer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length bronze crest. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Arjhan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Arjhan was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1200 gp.