Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. 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: A deep hatred of dire rats; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (800 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is renowned for her bright pastel dresses and hats. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her right hand. Her white hair is thinning but still full. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Mason but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Tourmaline (100 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Amber (100 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. His silver hair is cut short. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Human, 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 was granted druidic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a brown poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair is black and very short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Patrick hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. 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, Patrick is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Slave, Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1000 sp.