Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor, and he perpetually has his dagger ready. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thervan 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 Thervan. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Eye agate (10 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Sard (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is baby faced.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born to a Doctor, his mother struggled to pay the bills. A gifted student he started as a Doctor, but he got bored and became a Tanner. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Violet garnet (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). White opal (1100 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Emerald (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs, and is pretty ugly. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. 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, Varis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 700 gp. Rose (30 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Carnelian (30 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Assassin who has hired him part-time. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He got into the Assassin business at a young age. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Assassin for the past few years.

Motivation: He is greedy; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 900 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 spears on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Lamlis lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 18000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (20 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (20 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). 1 Major magic item. 1 Major magic item.