Description: He is a husky man, who wears a brown deerstalker hat and brown clothes. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Reynard was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 800 sp. Pink pearl (160 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he prefers to wear flannel. He has styled his dark red hair well, parting it to the right. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Mamnen hails from a village terrorized by brigands. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mercenary. He's also a talented Knight, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is content; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears tattered old clothes, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her rusty crest is knotted and matted. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Mason. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is a great chef.

History: Furrele was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She's also a talented Baker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Debt. Occupation: Mason

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. Cumpen is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 380 gp. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He sports a flattop crest cut. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Nithther is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Ella is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ella fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 6'6" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He dresses like a well dressed Marshal does. He has wavy copper crest. He has red eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Marshal. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His childhood dream was to be a Tanner, but he was a colossal failure. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to be a tanner again

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 150 gp. Malachite (9 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate.