Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, green shirt, and brown tie. He carries a battered halberd and tarnished pickaxe as well. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Shepherd hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 130 gp. Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: She has a missing right arm. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has wavy scarlet crest. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a simple tan robe with blue stripes complete with hood. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. Through the years after Rael was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Rael's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 2500 sp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp).