Description: He is lean but muscular and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. Heian is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Heian grew up listening to his father's many stories. 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 Mercenary. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mercenary for the past few years.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (800 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'11" and wears a brown vest and prefers blue and yellow shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 400 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (9000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, green shirt, and black tie, and is pretty ugly. His auburn hair is long and unkept. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

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. He worked as a nervous Shipwright and found it very stressful. Recently the stress of being a Shipwright has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 4000 gp. Aquamarine (400 gp). Coral (70 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.