Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Shepherd. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 Shepherd. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is wearing a long, blue cloak. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. He has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Therai was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Guard. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 36000 sp.

Description: He wears a fancy brown suit, and he perpetually has his rapier ready. His hair is auburn and very short. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Guard business.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Diggory was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Diggory fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

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 mother 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 was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. 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 has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Family, Poor, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. His white hair is long and unkept. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Thervan is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a Junk Dealer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 pp. Violet garnet (500 gp).