Description: An older man who wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, he is not a threatening figure. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He struck the Shepherd job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He carries a battered scimitar and tarnished shortbow as well. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vondal fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 40000 cp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears suspenders and white workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. She wears her white hair up. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Painter. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She was born in the north. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Cask was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. She has red hair. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 2900 sp. 1 Chain shirt.