Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his sai, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears dark leathers with embroidery. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a great chef.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: A deep hatred of dire rats; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. Aquamarine (500 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'1" and muscular, this eastern man is typically in his Adventurer uniform. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His green eyes peer out from beneath his small pastel hat.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Adventurer for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Bowyer again; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He stands about 4'11" and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is red and curly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 5000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1200 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his 15th 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 has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful, Ugly. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Banded agate (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Azurite (9 gp).