Description: He wears professional attire. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. After a long history of fighting, Varis and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Azaki was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 3100 gp. Moss agate (5 gp). Amber (160 gp). Blue sapphire (1100 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Coral (160 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Peren was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Slave Trader. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Slave Trader for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 4000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp).

Description: Standing 4'8", this man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His ears are large.

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 will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1600 gp. Aquamarine (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His black hair is still thick. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. A true patriot, Mindartis would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Priest arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he is greedy

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Military, Rich, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1800 gp.