Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his hand crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His red hair is thinning but still full. His gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are black and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. His childhood dream was to be a Bricklayer, but he was a colossal failure. He tends to his Dilettante job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Mundane, Forgetful, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: This eastern man wears a white cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is an amazing painter.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Ar-Beka was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Merchant. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 110 gp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'4" and wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Sculptor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This woman wears green trousers with black and white striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. Through the years after Biri was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Biri's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Biri and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and many dire rats want her driven away

Flaws: Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Coral (140 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is lean but muscular and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has dyed her greying black crest a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears just a brown suit. He has no fur. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Brewer and was forced into it by his family; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. 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. After a long history of fighting, Hork and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his feathered black hat.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rendar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2800 sp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Banded mail.