Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. 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: The child of a Cook, who enjoyed hunting, Manfred was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Nature, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 17000 cp. Solid gold idol (700 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Engraver. His hair is short and golden. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Engraver arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy, Secretive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp).

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a blue coat. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born in the west. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a tan collared shirt and pastel pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His head has been shaved. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He is baby faced.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Revenge; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Carnelian (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.