Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears tattered old clothes. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Beiro was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: He wears a red vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his red boots flare out at the collars, and he perpetually has his spear ready. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Sage

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'8" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is wearing a long, tan cloak. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Trym hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. He uses divination through singing.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (800 gp).

Description: 3'7" and muscular, this eastern man wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. 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 raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. 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: Further expansion of business; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 100 gp.