Description: 5'9" and muscular, this northern man wears a tan costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Logical. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His head has been shaved. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 30 pp. Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Shane was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gifted student he started as a Knight, but he got bored and became a Stableman. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Stableman for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Stableman responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Trym lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.