Description: This younger middle-aged man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a Guard first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He got into the Guard business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He became a Guard soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a large brown jacket. He carries with him a set of hand crossbows, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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 now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts, and he perpetually has his dagger ready. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are green.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. He has achieved small success as a Guard.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Guard responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 21000 sp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears long strands of opal and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. 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's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

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. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. 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 to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Small steel mirror. 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Crowbar.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'8". He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brown hair is long and unkept. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is an amazing painter.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Heward grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Heward. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Knight

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate.