Description: This man wears a black tunic with grey highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his left hand. He keeps his brass crest in a flapper bob. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: The child of a Healer, who enjoyed hunting, Pandjed was taken on many hunting expeditions. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Nature, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 80000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her gold eyes peer out from beneath her top green hat.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She took after her father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her father taught her to defend herself. When her father died while fighting dire rats, the young Doudra began to lead the lost caravan. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered white stockings, marred by sweets. His red hair is lengthy. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 12th 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. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Mundane, Fearful. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 6000 cp. Moss agate (10 gp).

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying north to reunite her family. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 4000 gp. Blue quartz (12 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 3'10" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears professional attire. Her auburn hair is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She tends to her Cook job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, In love. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He is physically well-built. He has shaved his head bald. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Shaká alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 48000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears bulky pastel painted plate armor. He is portly but not overly obese. His brown fur is matted, messy, and big. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Five hails from a village terrorized by giants. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Five fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears grey trousers with violet and pastel striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has a long silver ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born to a Performer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Addict, Lazy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Shedinn has worked very hard to control his curse. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Passionate, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 140 gp.