Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a grey shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and black pants. His tied-back hair is golden. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Armorer profession.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. John was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Dyer responsibilities is difficult; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She wears brown trousers with pastel and black striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has a hunchback. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: The child of a Masseuse, who enjoyed hunting, Kathra was taken on many hunting expeditions. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Kathra never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, In love. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Dee was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. 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 leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 700 sp. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears tattered old clothes. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His black hair is knotted and matted. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, 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 keeps her golden hair in a flapper bob. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She married young, but lost her spouse to dire rats. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Flaws: Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 30 pp.