Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is scarred and worn.

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. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He got into the Locksmith business at a young age. 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 ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Locksmith for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Navigator again.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 13000 sp. Black pearl (800 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 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 is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, black shirt, and brown tie. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: The child of a Banker, who enjoyed hunting, Varis was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 4000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears baggy red pantaloons and a grey scarf. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1700 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (170 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a brown costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 pp. Iolite (20 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Quarion is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Quarion 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 Quarion. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

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.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 800 gp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.