Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. 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: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. 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 west. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1500 gp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears dull yellow sweaters, loose violet pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed monstrous two handed axe, just in case. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Ruler. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Olunt hails from a village terrorized by brigands. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Ruler for hire.

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.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is dark but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is chestnut and curly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Banker arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Raer's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. A true patriot, Raer would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Raer was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. Raer abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

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

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp.