Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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 never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 gp. Sard (30 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is wearing a long, yellow, dusty cloak, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is cut close to his head. His ears are large.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and revenge

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 17000 cp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Richard grew up listening to his father's many stories. Richard 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 inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and balancing his hectic life and new shoemaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He stands about 6'1" and wears a fancy yellow suit. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His brown hair is thinning but still full. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Frederick is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Frederick was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Through the years after Frederick was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Frederick's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. He carries with him a set of morningstars, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His golden hair and beard is wavy and long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. 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 to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Balimaar grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Balimaar. 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. Balimaar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1 Good lock. 1 Small steel mirror.