Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears grey leather gloves, a grey jacket, and tight pants. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. Sporting a auburn mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Richard was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 300 sp. 3 Antitoxin.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Menny is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Menny never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Nature, In love. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gardain fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1000 gp. Citrine (50 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Emerald (1100 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is a Guard first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her childhood dream was to be a Courier, but she was a colossal failure. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Guard.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Guard responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body and is in decent physical shape. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. A friendly and beautiful Halfling, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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 Butcher. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Butcher for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 47000 sp.