Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. Gerard was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Gerard decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Fortune-teller kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Professionalism, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 7000 gp. Carnelian (20 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Sard (20 gp). Coral (60 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Coral (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Jet (60 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Laucian wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Expert, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Laucian was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Laucian was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered black stockings, and is pretty ugly. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears an eyepatch.

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: Born in the north to a Mortician, Dreali learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He became a Mortician soon after.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mortician responsibilities is difficult; and to be a scribe again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Scribe does. He is physically well-built. He wears his silver hair up. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 12000 sp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item.