Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a blue tunic with tan highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Mindartis hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Flaws: Terse, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Debt, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 20 pp. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This man dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with violet slacks, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He keeps his dark red hair in a pixie cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Scribe. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her orange fur has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are likewise yellow. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. 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 Scribe. She struck the Scribe job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: To be a Blacksmith again; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Poor, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 41000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His red hair is thinning but still full. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Tordek enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Tordek liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a black coat with green slacks. She keeps her black fur in a pixie cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: Quick is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. A gifted student she started as a Fortune-teller, but she got bored and became a Crown-heir. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: She is greedy; and balancing her hectic life and new crown-heir responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 29000 sp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.