Description: She is lean but muscular and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her auburn hair is still thick. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a Assassin, her mother struggled to pay the bills. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and to protect her home

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Guardian, Poor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (14 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Animal Trainer responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 6000 cp. Silver pearl (110 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, violet shirt, and brown tie. He has a hunchback. He has no hair. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. 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 raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is dressed in an above average manner. He wears his brown fur up. His copper unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is a great chef.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He bought a crossbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 100 sp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. Her brown hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Debt. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she prefers to wear white clothing when she does not wear armor. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She got into the Fisher business at a young age. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He carries with him a set of shortbows on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He keeps his white crest in a pixie cut. This red eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Masseuse. He has taken up work as a Masseuse and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and doesn't want to be a masseuse and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 15000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is light but he possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. He wears a fancy white suit. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bricklayer for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: An older man who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., he is not a threatening figure. His orange fur is knotted and matted. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Art was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Opinionated, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 110 gp.