Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and carries warhammers. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Elven culture. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is greedy; and elven compassion

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Attractive. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Amethyst (50 gp).

Description: He wears a blue shirt with thin white vertical stripes and violet pants, and he perpetually has his pickaxe ready. His red hair is still thick. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Lucan hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. After months of barely getting by, Lucan managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears his chestnut hair down. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Thervan has worked very hard to control his curse. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 700 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A small bag of saffron. (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He has a hunchback. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He got into the Spy business at a young age. A gifted student he started as a Guard, but he got bored and became a Spy. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 120 pp.