Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a simple grey robe with black stripes complete with hood. He has no hair. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Butcher. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Butcher responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a brown coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon her head, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has auburn hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She got into the Layabout business at a young age. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Bonds: In love, Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'10" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His fur, while still mostly cinnamon, has prominent grey streaks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

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 believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Cloud was born with his father's beautiful face. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 41000 sp.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her head has been shaved. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Ahinar is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Ahinar was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Unemployed. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has moderate length gray fur. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born in the west. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Tabaxis in Leaf's homeland. Leaf decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 10 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler.