Description: He stands about 6'4" and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His red crest is smooth and relatively long. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. 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: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Through the years after Shamash was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Shamash's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears skinny pants and wears a violet and grey robe with the hood down. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a very tight haircut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

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. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 pp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His brass crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has worked as a Locksmith like his mother before him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'1" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears an entirely black suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are gold.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a tan coat over a red low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His skin is flawless and his green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Optimist, Logical, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Banded mail.