Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly pickaxes and rapiers. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

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 used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Revenge; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is short and red. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. 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, Tordek is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a Engraver, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Interpreter for the past few years.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to be a engraver again

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 350 gp. Malachite (15 gp). Eye agate (15 gp).

Description: She wears long strands of amethyst and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born in the north. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears baggy black pantaloons and a brown scarf, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has slicked back auburn hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Baggi was born with her mother's beautiful face. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 350 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses like a well dressed Armorer does. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Nuraval hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 390 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.