Description: This late middle aged man wears red trousers with brown and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts and is in decent physical shape. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A freak accident while working with his Sellsword father left him crippled. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He is physically well-built. He keeps his long rusty crest kept up in a rat tail. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record, Military, Debt. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born in the north to a Spice Merchant, Merla learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Beiro was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. After a long history of fighting, Beiro and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Military. Occupation: Server

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her left hand. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 200 sp. Amethyst (160 gp).

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. She has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. A gifted student she started as a Soapmaker, but she got bored and became a Sculptor. She's also a talented Soapmaker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a red shirt, with a black mid length shorts with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His tied-back hair is red. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, In love. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp).

Description: He is renowned for his bright tan suits and hats. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Carpenter profession.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has worked as a Hunter like his mother before him.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Hunter and was forced into it by his family; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Dragonborn, and stands approximately 6'6". He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants, and his gloved hand is found clutching a kukri. His red crest is thinning but still full. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Barkeep. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Banded mail.