Description: 6'7" and muscular, this southern man usually wears his brown robe and has his bastard sword always slung over his shoulder. He has done his best to style his scarlet crest to look like a famous performer. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Rathkran 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 Map Maker, but he got bored and became a Blacksmith. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Blacksmith.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new blacksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2500 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 blue ritualistic tattoos. He wears tattered old clothes. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has gray eyes and a grey hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Namfoodle 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 Namfoodle. He bought a scythe and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. This violet eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has worked as a Dilettante like his father before him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This western man wears a violet armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has silver crest. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1700 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.