Description: An older man who wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), he is not a threatening figure. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His childhood dream was to be a Merchant, but he was a colossal failure. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Blacksmith.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 60 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears tattered old clothes. She keeps her long rusty crest kept up in a rat tail. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. After a long history of fighting, Sora and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He is an epitome of beauty. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Military, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. Chrysoberyl (90 gp).

Description: This western man wears a black costume with the symbols of magic on his torso. His clothes are grease stained in places. His brown hair is long and unkept. He has silver eyes and a black hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Miller profession.

History: He got into the Mayor business at a young age. 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. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. Malachite (13 gp).

Description: This man prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his left hand. His tied-back hair is white. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Ombul was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. She keeps her gold crest in a flapper bob. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Ruloth was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her right hand. She has a very tight haircut. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving A true patriot, Wella would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Wella was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 120 gp. Chrysoprase (40 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and tends to wear a large black jacket. His hair is auburn and very short. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born in the east. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He bought a hammer and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 200 gp.