Description: This slender man stands about 2'10". He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a nunchaku, but if one is not available he will default to his greataxe. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. He is baby faced.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Halander hails from a village terrorized by giants. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He dresses like a well dressed Bookbinder does. His yellow fur is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: Born in the east to a Bookbinder, Shifting learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bookbinder. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 9000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a fancy white suit. He sports a flattop fur cut. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 4000 gp. Silver ewer (80 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a green coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

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 father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Gerald was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to prove his worth to the world

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Guardian, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Antitoxin.