Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. The war was a terrible time for him, and Thomas does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born to a Assassin, his father struggled to pay the bills. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Guard. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Guard.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He stands about 5'6" and wears skinny pants and wears a red and grey robe with the hood down. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Arnold was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Born in the north to a Ploughman, Robert learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Pacifist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Everburning torch. 2 Thunderstones. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. His hair is short and black. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 15000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. 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 quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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 daughter.

History: He was born in the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the east were limited. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.