Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has moderate length red hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He worked as a nervous Stableman and found it very stressful. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He carries with him a set of maces, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born in the west to a Laborer, Erdan learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 180 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a white shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and brown pants. Her white hair has been sun bleached extensively. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born in the north. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 400 gp. Blue star sapphire (700 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This western woman wears just a black suit. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her brass crest is heavily combed to the right. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Adept school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Superior lock.