Description: 5'4" and muscular, this eastern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is auburn and curly. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born into a rich family. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His tied-back hair is golden. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1100 gp. Sard (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 4'8", this man wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has no hair. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born in a small forest village. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military, Nature. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man wears a tan collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Arannis speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This eastern man wears a tan tunic with pastel highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Hadarai studied abroad. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1900 gp. Banded agate (12 gp).