Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and black handkerchief worn on his right side. He has wavy golden hair. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Amethyst (150 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Balimaar was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 100 gp. Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Azurite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His silver hair is cut short. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has a crush on the local bounty hunter

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Theodoric was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.