Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a blue scarf. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is silver and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Nicholas hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. His parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when he was still a young child. The gnolls captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and many gnolls want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. His golden hair is lengthy. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. 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 was born at the edge of vast desert. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. 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: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 320 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a husky man, who dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. 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: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a simple green robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His black crest is smooth and relatively long. His gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of goblins once and for all.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He worked as a nervous Map Maker and found it very stressful. He has worked as a Map Maker like his mother before him.

Motivation: To be a Assassin again; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Job, In love. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

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 wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a shield on his belt. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length white crest. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Kriv fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Occupation: Painter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: Violet garnet (500 gp).