Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He usually wears his grey robe and has his sai always slung over his shoulder. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 6000 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his hand crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'8" when asserting himself. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

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 seeks redemption

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 pp. Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp).

Description: He wears a brown shirt, with a blue mid length shorts with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'8" when asserting himself. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Being a Apothecary 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 to unite with his brother

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Religious, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his ceremonial dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Nutae lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2000 gp. Solid gold idol (700 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (80 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.