Description: He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a green scarf. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has shaved his head bald. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Robert is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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. 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: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She wears dull black sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shortspear, just in case. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Ootah was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Ootah was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Military, Religious. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 900 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).

Description: She is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has dyed her greying blue hair a little too much giving a sharp blue color. Her white eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson black hat.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Shax has worked very hard to control her curse. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She keeps her long cinnamon fur kept up in a rat tail. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a Tailor first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 45000 sp. Onyx (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). 1 Simple lock. 1 Spyglass.