Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his pickaxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair is black and curly. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. Traki enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He struck the Performer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Coral (70 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His blonde hair is still thick. He is baby faced.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This man wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his monstrous two handed axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 3000 gp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. He has a hunchback. He has moderate length red hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Efferil is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Efferil lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he is greedy

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, In love, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 10000 cp. Violet garnet (1500 gp). Rose (80 gp). Jet (80 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp).