Description: Runty and weak-looking, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His silver hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 Courier. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Courier for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a nunchaku on her belt, and carries nunchakus. She has slicked back auburn hair. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 2100 gp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Hematite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. She wears a blue costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. She has a hunchback. Her blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Layabout who has hired her part-time. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Layabout business.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and she is content

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 3100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Nelkin was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a black shirt, with a brown mid length skirt with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She has wavy copper crest. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bow.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.