Description: This malnourished man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. His hair is cut close to his head. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Bather business.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (1500 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man dresses like a well dressed Armorer does. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Armorer for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Brewer again.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 500 gp. Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has a very tight haircut. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

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

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 32000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 2'11", this woman wears a red costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Marigold will drive conversation. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Marigold grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Marigold. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 40 pp. Smoky quartz (60 gp).