Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'11" and wears just a black suit. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. The war was a terrible time for him, and Bertram does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Obsidian (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Citrine (50 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and is pretty ugly. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Anverth lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 800 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). 1 Full Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Breastplate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears a red tunic with green highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. His silver hair is cut short. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 900 gp. Pink pearl (70 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His black hair is greasy and uncared for. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a great chef.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. After coming to the age of reason, Quarion took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Mundane. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His hair is silver and very short. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. 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 born several months after his father was called into army service. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.