Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He keeps his chestnut hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 gp. Amber (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. He has styled his silver hair well, parting it to the right. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born in a small island village. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this northern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is brown and curly. He has green eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a great chef.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Aquamarine (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Laucian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He usually wears his white robe and has his nunchaku always slung over his shoulder. He carries with him a set of nunchakus on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 700 gp. A small bag of saffron. (50 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).