Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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: He was raised by priests from a young age. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Painter.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His golden hair is matted, messy, and big. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. Theren is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Theren was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 400 pp. Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Malachite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a hunchback. He has red hair. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Raer was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: This man is very fat, and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is long and white with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Spy but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Aelar lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Aelar was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Spy. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Opinionated, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1600 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (90 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He has hazel eyes and a blue hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Gifted from a young age, Beiro studied abroad. 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. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Zircon (60 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp).