Description: 5'3" and muscular, this southern man very much looks the part of a Bather. His hair is silver and very short. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He takes great joy in being the best Bather in town.

History: He got into the Bather business at a young age. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bather for the past few years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is dressed in an above average manner. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker black hat.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Courier arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His clothes are grease stained in places. His bronze crest is lengthy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Pandjed was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mayor. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To protect his home; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Star rose quartz (40 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Jacinth (3000 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man wears skinny pants and wears a white and brown robe with the hood down. His clothes are grease stained in places. His copper crest is singed and shortened. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. Hirrathak is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).