Description: He is lean but muscular and prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. His green crest is matted, messy, and big. He has gold eyes and a black hat with a white feather.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying east to reunite his family. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is in excellent shape and tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her hair is long and silver with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small brown clips. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Butcher. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Ilde lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She has worked as a Butcher like her father before her.

Motivation: To be a Layabout again; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This malnourished man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His green crest is knotted and matted. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born in the south to a Fisher, Heskan learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. 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 became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he's in love

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: Standing 2'9", this woman is wearing a long, red, dusty cloak. She has a long black ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Addict, Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. Her beige fur is singed and shortened. Her eyes are copper and catlike.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 17000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.