Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He became a Mortician soon after.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and to be a sailor again

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 23000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his mace with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Animal Trainer. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Pog was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver pearl (90 gp).

Description: He wears a fancy blue suit. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly scimitars and clubs. His black crest is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are red.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. 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: Gifted from a young age, Nykkan studied abroad. 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 was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural dragonborn artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he tends to wear a large brown jacket. He wears his auburn hair up. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Through the years after Zook was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Zook's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp. Tourmaline (70 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 6'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his kukri with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His crest is red and curly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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 raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Stableman arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Shamash was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Aquamarine (1400 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp).