Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a long, grey cloak. He wears his chestnut hair down. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Mindartis hails from a village terrorized by goblins. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mindartis grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Mindartis. Being a Locksmith kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Revenge; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 600 gp. Blue sapphire (1100 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His black hair is still thick. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 160 pp. Gold music box (4000 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he tends to wear a large green jacket. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Riardon enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Animal Trainer. He's also a talented Assassin, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 260 pp. A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a brown vest and prefers grey and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He is physically well-built. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Naal grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Shepherd who has hired him part-time. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He got into the Shepherd business at a young age. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and to be a carpenter again

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Immigrant, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2300 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (110 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.