Description: This man is very fat, and wears a violet tunic with blue highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Cook for the past few years.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Rose (40 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He tends to wear a large white jacket. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bather arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Cory grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Cory. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His hair is blonde and curly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

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. A freak accident while working with his Tanner mother left him crippled. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears green trousers with brown and tan striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to pay off her debts

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp).