Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His black hair is greasy and uncared for. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Marshal arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with brown slacks. His tied-back hair is chestnut. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and usually wears his black robe and has his rapier always slung over his shoulder. His hair is cut close to his head. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Sculptor who has hired him part-time. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. When Vanuath reached his early adolescence his Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 11000 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp).

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this northern man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. 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: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. Being a Stableman 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 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 possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: The child of a Laborer, who enjoyed hunting, Thervan was taken on many hunting expeditions. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Fortune-teller. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Nature, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 gp. Black pearl (400 gp).