Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He wears a black shirt with thin white vertical stripes and green pants. He has a hunchback. His red hair is knotted and matted. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

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. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family 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. Being a Stableman 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: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his left hand. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. Ralf abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. 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's looking for his big break.

Flaws: Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He saw the violence of war and the aftermath so he converted to religion and dedicated himself to non-violence.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Silk rope.