Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. After a long history of fighting, Gerbo and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (50 gp).

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull blue iron scale mail. He carries a battered shortspear and tarnished club as well. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson black hat.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born into a rich family. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Fisher. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new fisher responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 70000 cp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 2000 gp. Azurite (14 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Iolite (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'5" western woman, she wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. Her red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Slave Trader for hire.

Motivation: To be a Mercenary again; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 4000 sp. Lapis lazuli (9 gp).