Description: She is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. She wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. She has a hunchback. Her auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Ahlyssa lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This western man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His clothes are grease stained in places. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and half-elven compassion

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: Standing 4'7", this woman wears a black vest and prefers blue and white shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She found a children's book about a Half-Orc Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 20 gp. Red spinel (70 gp).

Description: He wears a tan tunic with grey highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around his shoes. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Carrie was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Carrie decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 2000 cp. Tourmaline (100 gp).