Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears bulky red painted plate armor. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. After coming to the age of reason, Varis took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. After a long history of fighting, Varis and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Barber

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He got into the Layabout business at a young age. When Azaki 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 struck the Layabout job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Pacifist, Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Sailor. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. 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: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 6000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a robe, a symbol of death around his neck, and a trident on his belt. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Through the years after Tharivol was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Tharivol's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His white hair is still thick. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Enialis is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Actor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.