Description: 5'8" and muscular, this eastern man wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. He is baby faced.

Personality: Alex hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and tan handkerchief worn on his right side. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. 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. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mercenary and was forced into it by his family; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This southern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a bastard sword on his belt. His chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Theobald was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.