Description: She typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Nalaed will drive conversation. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she has a large yellow mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. With bright silver hair. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Naivara was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Naivara has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

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

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His golden hair is lengthy. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He is wearing a long, black cloak. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Modean never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich, In love. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. She has shaved her head bald. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her top blue hat.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 400 gp.