Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a fancy red suit. He has chestnut hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Carter.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Insane, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 800 gp. Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Amber (100 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a brown deerstalker hat and brown clothes. His hair is red and curly. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Tordek grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Baker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Brewer. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Brewer. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Merchant they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Brewer, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 150 gp. Red spinel (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His hair is silver and very short. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a Herbalist first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Jet (80 gp). Coral (80 gp).