Description: This slender man stands about 6'3". He wears a black small hat and black clothes. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. He has green eyes and a black hat with a white feather.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. 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: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 9000 cp. Black pearl (200 gp). Banded agate (14 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His golden hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are blue and catlike.

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 does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Herbalist but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He got into the Herbalist business at a young age. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He is an epitome of beauty. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Aldous was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. 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. Being a Banker kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (60 gp).

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and is renowned for his bright green suits and hats. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His tied-back hair is red. His ears are large.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Dean hails from a village terrorized by drow. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. 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. Dean fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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 raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 42000 sp. Eye agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.