Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a trident, but if one is not available he will default to his kukri. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Heian was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his blue robe. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Arannis hails from a village terrorized by drow. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Arannis alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 900 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp).

Description: He has a missing right arm. He likes to wear brown tank tops with grey pants. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Silver ewer (40 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

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 is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the west. The family's rival house kidnapped his sister with the intent that his sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2000 gp. Moonstone (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'9" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has no hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A freak accident while working with his Scribe father left him crippled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is content

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 2000 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 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.