Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'8" and likes to wear brown tank tops with black pants. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Justice. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 180 pp. Black pearl (500 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Chrysoberyl (60 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His silver hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Performer. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Performer. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

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 to clean up the streets

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Religious, Guardian. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. 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. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Banded agate (7 gp). Jade (120 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Sard (20 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'10". He wears just a green suit. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Selfish, Addict, Mundane, Racist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: This man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Erdan was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is greedy

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 140 pp. Peridot (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Coral (50 gp).