Description: This slender man stands about 5'8". He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. He sports a flattop hair cut. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. In his 13th 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 gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Laborer. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Revenge.

Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush, Mentor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (150 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (150 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. He has golden hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gubu is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Gubu was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Rock crystal (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Rose (50 gp). Rose (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'3" and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Through the years after Aelar was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Aelar's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Aelar never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, In love, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 12000 sp. Old masterpiece painting (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a green vest and prefers yellow and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a Herbalist first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Fibblestib was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Herbalist. He has worked as a Herbalist like his mother before him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Herbalist responsibilities is difficult; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1000 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.