Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when he was still a young child. The gnolls captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is wearing a long, green cloak. His red hair is heavily combed to the right. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. 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-sister.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. 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 wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Addict, Greedy. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a blue costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. 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 is content; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and grey handkerchief worn on his right side. He is an epitome of beauty. His tied-back hair is blonde. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Reynard's homeland. Reynard decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Reynard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (600 gp). Red spinel (50 gp).