Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Arannis 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 Arannis. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 300 gp. White pearl (140 gp). Jet (140 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears an entirely white suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. A freak accident while working with his Marshal father left him crippled. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 4000 gp. Gold cup set with emeralds (7000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (80 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a pastel vest and prefers white and pastel shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His ears are large.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

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. Naill abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 3000 gp. Fire opal (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a red poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his flail, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. He has blonde hair. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family 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. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Galinndan never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Justice, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'1" and dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with blue slacks. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. Dayereth was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Mortician. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 4000 gp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (70 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).