Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His white hair is braided into rings. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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: Athletic, Disciplined, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a husky woman, who does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She wears her black hair up. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. 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 was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She keeps her long white fur kept up in a rat tail. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She got into the Knight business at a young age. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears professional attire. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His blue crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Apothecary born in the past three hundred years. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: In love, Job, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean violet cloak covering her clean studded leather. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Hatae grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Hatae. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1300 sp. Deep green spinel (150 gp).

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her blonde hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing music.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Locksmith work with an outfit from a few towns over. Locksmith work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She became a Locksmith soon after.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 30 pp. Hematite (8 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is typically in his Farmer uniform. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Farmer who has hired him part-time. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. 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: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Carpenter. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly halberds and scythes. He wears a colorful flower in his dark red hair. His white unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Marbas never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Disease, Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Just what you see.