Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 6000 sp. Aquamarine (1000 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is short and auburn. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Henry was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Henry decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He's also a talented Servant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears just a black suit. His white hair is braided into rings. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family 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 has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

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; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Logical, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a blue top hat and blue clothes. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Justice, Athletic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 gp. Star ruby (700 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Jet (110 gp).