Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His ears are large.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Butcher they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Miller, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and doesn't want to be a miller and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tattered old clothes. His golden hair is long and unkept. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Hrathy lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 340 gp. Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Obsidian (14 gp).

Description: Standing 5'2", this man is renowned for his bright blue suits and hats. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the right. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2100 sp. Eye agate (12 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: Standing 3'3", this woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Carpenter. She has achieved small success as a Carpenter.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Selfish, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate.