Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Halimath hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a white coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His blonde hair is still thick. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Cartwright hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Guardian, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Naeris was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Naeris took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up monstrous two handed axe and armor he uses now. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bounty Hunter.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Malachite (15 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Jade (60 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Rose (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (7000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bows and glaives. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Peren was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Peren decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 16000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.