Description: This malnourished man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his warhammer with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His golden hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Erias abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. During his travels, Erias and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Erias discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Erias fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born to a Slave Trader, his father struggled to pay the bills. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Slave Trader. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 2800 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She is a Jackalwere in disguise. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has worked as a Mercenary like her mother before her.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, In love, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears professional attire. His crest is copper and curly. His eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has moderate length black crest. Her skin is flawless and her gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Arava is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around his ears. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Bellfounder. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He worked as a nervous Bellfounder and found it very stressful. He struck the Bellfounder job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 20 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (30 gp).

Description: An older man who wears a pastel tunic with green highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes, he is not a threatening figure. His orange fur is thinning but still full. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Butcher business.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 30 gp. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. He has no hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Elaim lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Amethyst (150 gp).