Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Hoshû is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bather.

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

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 120 gp. Amethyst (140 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His black crest is still thick. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Shedinn hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Shedinn hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. At a young age his mother died while driving off some dire rats. His father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in ceremonial dagger use. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears suspenders and green workpants. Her shirt is white, and she wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. Her scarlet crest is heavily combed to the left. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 110 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp).

Description: He wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants, and he perpetually has his greataxe ready. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.