Description: This eastern man is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is black and very short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Uthemar was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 50 pp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He carries with him a set of halberds on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He has a long blonde beard with little hanging trinkets. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His first spouse was a Armorer, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 3000 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 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.

Description: This southern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 300 gp. Hematite (8 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Sard (40 gp).

Description: He usually wears his red robe and has his glaive always slung over his shoulder. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with black slacks. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

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 became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 140 pp.