Description: An older man who prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts, he is not a threatening figure. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 50 gp. Rock crystal (30 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a large black jacket. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His orange fur is long and unkept. His yellow eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect his home

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a grey shirt, with a violet mid length shorts with violet tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He is physically well-built. His silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Mantus was born the youngest of three triplets. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Masseuse. He became a Masseuse soon after.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and to settle down with his crush

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1100 sp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a tan and grey robe with the hood down, and carries longswords. His brown hair is thinning but still full. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Heian has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Selfish, Mundane, Disease. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 300 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (50 gp).

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly greatswords and lances. He wears his red hair down. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. Osco enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He got into the Cook business at a young age. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Osco grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Osco. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.