Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his club with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the left. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 30 gp. Rose (80 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He sports a flattop crest cut. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He takes great joy in being the best Mortician in town.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Tarhun was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He struck the Mortician job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Nicholas never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military, In love. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 210 gp. Fire opal (500 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He carries with him a set of monstrous two handed axes on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Ribbles is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ribbles grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ribbles. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are white.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Decarabia was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Dwarven companion (her 'brother'). When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He wears his golden hair up. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Courier. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Courier but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born into a rich family. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Courier work with an outfit from a few towns over. Courier work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to be a slave trader again

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He has done his best to style his gold crest to look like a famous performer. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born into a rich family. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Painter they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Mayor, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mayor and was forced into it by his family; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He wears a white costume with the symbols of death on his torso. He carries with him a set of nunchakus on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his youth he was a Hunter, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger brother on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spy and was forced into it by his family; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Nature, Attractive. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears his blonde hair down. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. Jebeddo liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. 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: He wants revenge against dire rats; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 2900 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt.