Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears long strands of sapphire and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His dark red hair is thinning but still full. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. A true patriot, Valafar would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His eyes are green.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He takes great joy in being the best Baker in town.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Baker like his mother before him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He is portly but not overly obese. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Nordak's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He takes great joy in being the best Body Guard in town.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Body Guard responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 390 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.