Description: He dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He carries with him a set of halberds on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 5000 sp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (110 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He usually wears his blue robe and has his scythe always slung over his shoulder. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting dire rats, the young Varis began to lead the lost caravan. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1400 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his axe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His first spouse was a Carpenter, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Body Guard work with an outfit from a few towns over. Body Guard work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He struck the Body Guard job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to be a bellfounder again

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 6000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (100 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.