Description: He stands about 4'8" and wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is a great chef.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Aerdeth 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 Aerdeth. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 260 pp. Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Azurite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. His tied-back hair is auburn. He has brown eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Lucan's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born in the west to a Mason, Lucan learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was taken from his home at a very young age. 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: To end his boredom; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 gp. Iolite (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Jade (130 gp).

Description: He wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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 has decided he is irredeemable.

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This eastern man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His clothes are grease stained in places. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born in the east to a Layabout, Paelias learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 4000 gp. Moss agate (13 gp). Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Aramil was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 900 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (3000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (20 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp).