Description: He is in excellent shape and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1000 sp. Aquamarine (400 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 4'9", this woman tends to wear a grey poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born in the north to a Miner, Juliana learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Miner. She has worked as a Miner like her mother before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he usually wears his green robe and has his shortbow always slung over his shoulder, and is pretty ugly. He has a very tight haircut. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his top green hat.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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 to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 600 gp. Amber (110 gp). Coral (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.