Description: This younger middle-aged woman tends to wear a large blue jacket, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: Mella is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Mella lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Mella liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: In love, Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. William was born on a far northern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Farmer. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Miller arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his flail with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Hobart lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Hobart alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He usually wears his brown robe and has his kukri always slung over his shoulder. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Harbek's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 10 pp. Brown-green garnet (70 gp). 1 Everburning torch.