Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His long gold crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. She has golden hair. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She got into the Mortician business at a young age. Through the years after Mardred was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Mardred's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'4" when asserting herself. Her bronze crest is heavily combed to the right. She is baby faced.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. A gifted student she started as a Mercenary, but she got bored and became a Spice Merchant. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His copper crest is singed and shortened. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 600 sp. Eye agate (4 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'5" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a grey shirt with thin white vertical stripes and grey pants. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He bought a morningstar and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants his loneliness to end

Bonds: Attractive, In love, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.