Description: He is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He carries a battered mace and tarnished club as well. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Hork lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 270 gp. Moonstone (40 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: 6'3" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He has red crest. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears just a grey suit. Her hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

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

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. She has white hair. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Slave. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Ploughman. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Gifted from a young age, Giselle studied abroad. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Tiaathque enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a black shirt, with a tan mid length shorts with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He has done his best to style his red crest to look like a famous performer. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are red.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, In love. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 10 pp. Chrysoprase (60 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has shaved her head bald. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

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

History: Ridaro was born with her father's beautiful face. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered north to less war torn lands. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Shy, Selfish, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 40 gp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp).