Description: He wears a grey costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He is portly but not overly obese. His golden hair is cut short. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Laborer business.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A freak accident while working with his Body Guard mother left him crippled. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and to be a body guard again

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Acid flasks. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a violet scarf. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: William lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. William abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 20000 cp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

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 has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. 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: A deep hatred of gnolls; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. Emerald (1200 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Banded agate (13 gp).

Description: He wears a fancy violet suit. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is red and very short. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: The child of a Stableman, who enjoyed hunting, Frederick was taken on many hunting expeditions. A gifted student he started as a Stableman, but he got bored and became a Courier. He's also a talented Stableman, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 29000 cp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. He has wavy black hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. 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-brother.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Thomas has worked very hard to control his curse. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insane. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.