Description: Standing 5'2", this man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Fletcher but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Joker, Pacifist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp).

Description: Standing 6'1", this man prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. His crest is short and green. He has red eyes and a green hat with a red feather.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Pandjed was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Selfish, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He wears his blonde hair down. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 north. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Flaws: Insane, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 130 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'3". He usually wears his grey robe and has his sword always slung over his shoulder. He keeps his chestnut hair in a flapper bob. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has worked as a Glassblower like his father before him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her black fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a Shoemaker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Shoemaker.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Irish accent

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

Description: This man wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: Efferil speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born into a rich family. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She is a Lycanthrope in disguise. Nalaed abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Impeccable. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 10000 cp. Banded agate (15 gp). 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has wavy yellow fur. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Sage arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His childhood dream was to be a Map Maker, but he was a colossal failure. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Flask never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Sage and was forced into it by his family; and to be a map maker again

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, In love, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 900 gp. Onyx (20 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.