Description: Standing 5'8", this man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Melech will drive conversation. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: She wears skinny pants and wears a red and pastel robe with the hood down. She carries a battered whip and tarnished club as well. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has brown eyes and a red hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. At some point she was captured by dire rats and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His black eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born in the north. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Qemuel alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to dire rats.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. With bright chestnut hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. After a long history of fighting, Brakka and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: John is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Gifted from a young age, John studied abroad. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 2000 sp. Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp).

Description: Standing 5'11", this man wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Stableman. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Hugh was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 140 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears dull black sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed scimitar, just in case. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Banker born in the past three hundred years. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and regain custody of her son

Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious, Military, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is wearing a long, red cloak. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her small red hat.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. The war was a terrible time for her, and Shaena does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Shaena hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Shaena was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and she's in love

Flaws: Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Enemies, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple white line shooting up and back down. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She's also a talented Cartwright, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2100 sp. Tourmaline (100 gp).