Description: He wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His red leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars, and he perpetually has his monstrous two handed axe ready. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Aelar lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. Being a Beggar 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: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a pastel tunic with brown highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He got into the Cartwright business at a young age. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Cartwright for the past few years.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he's in love

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 pp. Rose (20 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp).

Description: He wears bulky green painted plate armor. He is physically well-built. His hair is chestnut and very short. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Arannis was born with his mother's beautiful face. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Masseuse hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a masseuse and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.