Description: This exceptionally lanky man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born into a rich family. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and money/treasure

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Religious, Rich, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1800 gp. Star ruby (1200 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp).

Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears just a grey suit. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Being a Cook 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 has decided he is irredeemable; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 110 pp. Peridot (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he usually wears his yellow robe and has his kukri always slung over his shoulder. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. 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. He struck the Baker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Nature, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Moss agate (8 gp). Jade (50 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Obsidian (8 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Jade (50 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a tattered pair of loose pastel pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He bought a kukri and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Peridot (40 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. He carries a battered longbow and tarnished hand crossbow as well. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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 born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 500 gp.