Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His ears are large.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Carter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: 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.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This northern woman wears a grey coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the north were limited. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Sardonyx (50 gp).

Description: This man is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Marshal. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on his left hand. His crest is brass and very short. His eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born in a small island village. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Addict, Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: 6'6" and muscular, this western man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is chestnut and very short. His silver eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His bronze crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Ildrex is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

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. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 has taken up work as a Bellfounder and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 2500 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Sard (40 gp). Sard (40 gp).

Description: He stands about 3'2" and is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and brown handkerchief worn on his right side. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is a Glassblower first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. He struck the Glassblower job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He is an epitome of beauty. His black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. Kûga was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Kûga decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Masseuse for the past few years.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears an entirely black suit with violet socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

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

History: Myev hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Her parents were killed by illithids in a raid when she was still a young child. The illithids captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Tourmaline (80 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Malachite (7 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and carries shields. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length white fur. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

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. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born in the north. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Leaf fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 40 gp.