Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his long black fur kept up in a rat tail. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man prefers to wear flannel. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his right hand. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the right. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Dwarven culture. 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 in a white middle class family as the only child. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. 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: 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; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. His crest is green and curly. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Engraver arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Engraver for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Engraver responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears baggy red pantaloons and a tan scarf, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has wavy white hair. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Slave, Guardian. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.