Description: This slender man stands about 5'0". He prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. His brown hair is cut short. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. After coming to the age of reason, Kyle took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. 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: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Military, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Aquamarine (700 gp). Sard (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears an entirely tan suit with pastel socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is content; and he is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears tattered old clothes. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2800 sp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a pastel coat. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Born in the east to a Fortune-teller, Jocelyn learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jocelyn fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 3 Antitoxin. 4 Alchemist’s fire. 3 Holy water. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He very much looks the part of a Sailor. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Reynard is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in the east to a Sailor, Reynard learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Sailor.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Poor, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). 1 Climber’s kit. 1 Average lock.