Description: This tall, slender man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortspear with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. 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 several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To be a Sage again; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Family, Job. Occupation: Fisher

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

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'1" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are gray.

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 has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Halimath 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 Halimath. Being a Performer 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 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.

Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Rose (30 gp). Coral (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a grey coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. His hair is silver and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Nim was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'5" northern man, he wears a blue costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Ahvain was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ahvain decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Soapmaker.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this southern man wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker white hat.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.