Description: This malnourished woman dresses like a well dressed Soapmaker does. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. A gifted student she started as a Bookbinder, but she got bored and became a Soapmaker. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Holy water.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. His silver hair is lengthy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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 has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He carries with him a set of longswords on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. His black hair is braided into rings. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eberk fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 700 sp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp).

Description: A 6'4" northern man, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He wears a colorful flower in his auburn hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp).