Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mordai grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Mordai was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Mordai decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (80 gp).

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has brown hair. His eyes are likewise white. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Barakas hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Mundane, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'7" and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her golden hair is cut short. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a Hunter first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Koeth was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has worked as a Shoemaker like his mother before him.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and he is content

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 3000 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a yellow suit, tan shirt, and brown tie. His white hair is long and unkept. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, and is pretty ugly. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears bulky green painted plate armor. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born in the north to a Bather, Marbas learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bather for hire.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 gp. Sardonyx (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He usually wears his black robe and has his flail always slung over his shoulder. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. He has a dull look in his silver eyes.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Servant. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tiefling companion (his 'brother'). When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he's looking for his big break

Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (800 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. She has moderate length purple hair. Her white eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 2000 sp.