Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He usually wears his tan robe and has his shortbow always slung over his shoulder. He has a hunchback. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man likes to wear red tank tops with grey pants, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His beige fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This yellow eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His parents enrolled him in a Cleric school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Five never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 800 gp. Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Amber (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. He wears his black hair down. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 80 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: This man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Nelkin hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Revenge; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 60000 cp. Violet garnet (300 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.