Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears professional attire. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Shane 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. Shane 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: To be a Doctor again; and balancing his hectic life and new tanner responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has a hunchback. His hair is long and black with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Priest they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Dilettante, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He carries with him a set of shortbows on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. He has a very tight haircut. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a guard and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Alex was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is physically well-built. He has moderate length blonde hair. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He got into the Dilettante business at a young age. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his mother's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered orcs who tried to eat his hand. He's also a talented Apothecary, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 300 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp).