Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a yellow shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and black pants. His hair is black and curly. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Jade (130 gp).

Description: 5'9" and muscular, this western man likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Courier arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. A freak accident while working with his Slave Trader father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (1000 gp). Amber (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

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 misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born in the east to a Masseuse, Peter learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has worked as a Masseuse like his mother before him.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'6". He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is short and silver. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.