Description: Standing 6'2", this woman wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. Her crest is white and very short. Her half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Gesrethe hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Gesrethe was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Warlock, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Warlock in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 50 gp. Jet (40 gp). 3 Smokesticks.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a green collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has rusty crest. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. A true patriot, Abad would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Abad was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Abad alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 150 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 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. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Carpenter arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 40 gp. Amethyst (140 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Jet (140 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She is portly but not overly obese. She sports a flattop hair cut. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. When Veloptima reached her early adolescence her Gnome father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 130 gp.