Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His eyes are green.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Ghash was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ghash fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 20000 sp. White opal (1400 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Malachite (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: The child of a Crown-heir, who enjoyed hunting, Lezre was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her divine abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her flail with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Alain's homeland. Alain decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. She has a very tight haircut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She got into the Merchant business at a young age. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: He wears a grey vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his grey boots flare out at the collars. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the east were limited. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Blue sapphire (400 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has dyed his greying gold crest a little too much giving a sharp gold color. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 140 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp).

Description: An older man who wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, he is not a threatening figure. He has shaved his head bald. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. After a long history of fighting, Adrik and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Shy, Hedonist, Antagonistic. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Just what you see.