Description: This light-skinned male dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. 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 grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Being a Detective 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 is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. Red garnet (120 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp).

Description: This northern man is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is black and very short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born in a small island village. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Elves in Paelias's homeland. Paelias decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Paelias fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Passionate, Fighting. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp. Blue quartz (4 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his top violet hat.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Quarion grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Quarion. Being a Fortune-teller 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: To share knowledge with the world; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Lazy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1800 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is dressed in an above average manner. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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 has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and he's attracted to the pc

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 500 gp. Banded agate (12 gp). Zircon (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is typically in his Courier uniform. He carries with him a set of scimitars on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

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. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Berrian was born with his father's beautiful face. He worked as a nervous Courier and found it very stressful. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To be a Blacksmith again; and balancing his hectic life and new courier responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2000 gp.