Description: He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. He is portly but not overly obese. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. He has hazel eyes and a tan hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist, Joker, Athletic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times, marred by sweets. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Thervan speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born in the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the west were limited. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 90 gp. A small bag of saffron. (90 gp).

Description: An older man who dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a red coat with yellow slacks, he is not a threatening figure. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A freak accident while working with his Farmer father left him crippled. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he has a crush on the local farmer

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Has a crush. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Varis was born with his mother's beautiful face. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and balancing his hectic life and new bellfounder responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, Guardian, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Ploughman they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Fortune-teller, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 600 sp.