Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. His chestnut hair is cut short. He has gray eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He takes great joy in being the best Mercenary in town.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Human compassion; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Mundane, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Courier but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Heward hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is content

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 2600 sp.

Description: This man wears tattered old clothes, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Bounty Hunter mother left him crippled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'4". He wears a green tunic with blue highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes, and his gloved hand is found clutching a sword. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

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 plays an instrument quite well.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Scribe work with an outfit from a few towns over. Scribe work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Scribe responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 41000 sp. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Silk rope. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.