Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a brown tunic with green highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around his shoes, and is pretty ugly. His beige fur has been sun bleached extensively. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

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

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy gray fur. She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. She has a hunchback. Her gray fur has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are likewise yellow. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She is a great chef.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Tailor arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her first spouse was a Dilettante, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and doesn't want to be a tailor and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 330 gp. Jasper (60 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Gardain lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. After a long history of fighting, Gardain and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 160 gp. White pearl (120 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). 4 Smokesticks.

Description: He wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'11" when asserting himself. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. At a young age his father died while driving off some giants. His mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in shield use. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants revenge against giants.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 130 pp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (70 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'9" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his pickaxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Insane. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Just what you see.