Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Emotional, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Knight

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. She keeps her long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nyx grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Religious, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 30 gp. Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: She stands about 6'5" and wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her gold eyes peer out from beneath her broad green hat.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her first spouse was a Performer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and she wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her hair is short and auburn. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, In love. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: An older man who usually wears his black robe and has his lance always slung over his shoulder, he is not a threatening figure. He has black hair. His eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Chem abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 100 gp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Amethyst (160 gp).