Description: Standing 5'7", this man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. 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 is irascible and easily irritated. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Being a Shoemaker 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 being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 10 pp. Aquamarine (1100 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'5". He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat, and his gloved hand is found clutching a whip. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is a great chef.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Fighter school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 16000 cp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is light but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He is wearing a long, pastel cloak. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the right. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Alex enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Alex 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. Alex decided he wanted neither the life of his father 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 struck the Fortune-teller job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'9". He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and his gloved hand is found clutching a greataxe. He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the right. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Robert alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Robert was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with green slacks. His hair is black and curly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Racist, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.