Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his hand crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Priest arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He likes to wear green tank tops with violet pants. He has shaved his head bald. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His parents enrolled him in a Ranger school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Guardian, Slave. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: He wears a green armored body suit, with a simple red line shooting up and back down. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Dworic was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Bookbinder work with an outfit from a few towns over. Bookbinder work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bookbinder.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs and is in decent physical shape. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1000 gp. Moss agate (9 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). White pearl (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'7" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His dark red hair is knotted and matted. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Chem enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp.