Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Chad alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: 2'11" and muscular, this eastern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: The child of a Animal Trainer, who enjoyed hunting, Ulblyn was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 6'0", this man wears long strands of sapphire and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His dark red hair is heavily combed to the right. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is content; and he seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Fearful, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 90 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp).

Description: This man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed white hat.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Travok has worked very hard to control his curse. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he wants to get laid

Flaws: Impulsive, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His black hair is thinning but still full. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Abad was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. 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 money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.