Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His crest is rusty and very short. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Mehen was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 500 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears tattered old clothes. He has black hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Gifted from a young age, Efferil studied abroad. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Deep green spinel (150 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He wears his blue hair up. His black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He takes great joy in being the best Healer in town.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. A gifted student he started as a Navigator, but he got bored and became a Healer. He bought a warhammer and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Rich, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ahrim studied abroad. Ahrim was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ahrim decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

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

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He tends to wear a large yellow jacket. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He hates Halflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He got into the Dilettante business at a young age. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

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

Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 500 gp. Banded agate (7 gp).