Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a red shirt with thin black vertical stripes and green pants. His blonde hair is lengthy. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born to a Engraver, his father struggled to pay the bills. He worked as a nervous Miner and found it very stressful. He has worked as a Miner like his father before him.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Jasper (60 gp).

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is long and black with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small grey clips. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She hates Humans with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Human conditions. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Server

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shield with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Assassin but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Alice was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Justice, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 2000 sp. Black pearl (400 gp). Jasper (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has no hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Avice was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 3000 sp. Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.