Description: An older man who wears blue robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a mace, but if one is not available he will default to his whip, he is not a threatening figure. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. He has gray eyes and a blue hat with a red feather.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This light-skinned male wears an entirely green suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has silver hair. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now mingles about in high society.

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

Ideals: Persistence, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Silver pearl (100 gp). Red garnet (100 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 gp. Iolite (20 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Nicholas was born with his mother's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. 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. Nicholas fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 pp.