Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are green.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a white scarf and is in decent physical shape. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is his passion; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His red hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Alberich lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He's also a talented Bookbinder, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family, Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His brass crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: The child of a Carpenter, who enjoyed hunting, Nykkan was taken on many hunting expeditions. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and expand his business

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1 Superior lock.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has wavy chestnut hair. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He got into the Baker business at a young age. 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 ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Baker for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and balancing his hectic life and new baker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.