Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born in the east to a Scribe, Rael learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Carpenter, but he got bored and became a Scribe. He tends to his Scribe job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1100 gp. Iolite (70 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). Rose (70 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears dull violet sweaters, loose yellow pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed sickle, just in case. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Rael is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (70 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). Silver ewer (10 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1600 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp).

Description: Standing 5'5", this man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His blonde hair is braided into rings. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1400 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears baggy violet pantaloons and a black scarf. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Family, Poor, Has a crush. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). Emerald (700 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. His ears are large.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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 is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 16000 sp. Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.