Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

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 believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His childhood dream was to be a Fortune-teller, but he was a colossal failure. He struck the Courier job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is typically in his Merchant uniform. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 sp. Obsidian (4 gp). 1 Superior lock.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull grey iron scale mail. He has a hunchback. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born in the north. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 900 sp. Carnelian (60 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is yellow, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Alston enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Insane. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This northern woman tends to wear a blue poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Sporting a white mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Shanairla was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, brown shirt, and tan tie. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his halberd, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. He has moderate length red hair. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Barakas was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. After coming to the age of reason, Barakas took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears tattered old clothes. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents were killed by goblins in a raid when she was still a young child. The goblins captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He stands about 3'7" and is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has wavy red hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Chrysoprase (80 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Elves. Her skin is dark but she possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. She tends to wear a blue poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Malquis enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 30 gp. 3 Antitoxin.