Description: This malnourished man wears professional attire. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is content

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 4000 sp. Violet garnet (1300 gp). Sard (70 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His eyes are gray.

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. Hadarai is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Family, Mentor, Guardian. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Arannis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: The child of a Blacksmith, who enjoyed hunting, Arannis was taken on many hunting expeditions. 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. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Arannis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is content; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Eye agate (4 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a yellow tunic with white highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Merchant. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He got into the Merchant business at a young age. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has achieved small success as a Merchant.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and balancing his hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Lazy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (160 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'3" and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is cut close to his head. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Beiro was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His first spouse was a Herbalist, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, Selfish. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 900 gp. Malachite (12 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp).