Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is white, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. His white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Merihim isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tiefling unity. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Shepherd work with an outfit from a few towns over. Shepherd work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has worked as a Shepherd like his father before him.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her brown hair is long and unkept. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born in the south. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 150 gp. Tourmaline (120 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is physically well-built. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. He has a dull look in his white eyes.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Marbas 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 Marbas. 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 greedy; and 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

Flaws: Mundane, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and carries shields. His head has been shaved. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Through the years after Thamior was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Thamior's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. 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.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 90 gp.