Description: This exceptionally lanky man is renowned for his bright red suits and hats. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born into a rich family. He took after his father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his father taught him to defend himself. When his father died while fighting goblins, the young Altho began to lead the lost caravan. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white fur. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a pastel suit, tan shirt, and violet tie. He has a hunchback. His white fur, when down, is lengthy. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Spear was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. Spear abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Amethyst (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears bulky blue painted plate armor. He is physically well-built. His long blonde hair reaches down to his waist. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Paelias was born with his mother's beautiful face. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Sculptor for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Religious, Attractive, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 700 pp. White pearl (110 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 2'10" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He got into the Architect business at a young age. A gifted student he started as a Carter, but he got bored and became a Architect. He struck the Architect job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 pp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male wears black trousers with brown and violet striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He wears his black hair up. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his feathered black hat.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 500 gp. Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Moonstone (40 gp).