Description: He is scrawny and has patchy beige fur. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a hunchback. His fur is short and beige. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and carries whips. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

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 a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He became a Soapmaker soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 19000 cp. Golden pearl (40 gp). Fire opal (600 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 6'7" and is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a white broad hat and white clothes. His hair is auburn and curly. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born into a rich family. A gifted student he started as a Courier, but he got bored and became a Bounty Hunter. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His blue crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Bidreked was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Bidreked never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, In love, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 170 pp. Iolite (70 gp). Amethyst (140 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Rose (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.