Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. Adelard 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. Adelard 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. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

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 he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Tourmaline (120 gp).

Description: He wears a red deerstalker hat and red clothes. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Gunter was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears a blue shirt with thin green vertical stripes and white pants. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his longbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: He was born into a rich family. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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 greedy; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his green robe. He is portly but not overly obese. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Miner but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Justice, Pacifist, Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is red, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time, and he perpetually has his club ready. He sports a flattop hair cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Nicholas was born the youngest of three triplets. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 gp. Onyx (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp).