Description: This southern man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He saw the violence of war and the aftermath so he converted to religion and dedicated himself to non-violence.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Azurite (15 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Jet (140 gp).

Description: She stands about 3'11" and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She has a very tight haircut. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. After a long history of fighting, Audhild and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears suspenders and green workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. He sports a flattop hair cut. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He got into the Sailor business at a young age. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She got into the Armorer business at a young age. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Armorer.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 2100 sp. Malachite (7 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a white cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Born to a Painter, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a cook and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.