Description: He wears a black shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and black pants. His red hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Astar lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: Standing 6'7", this man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has red crest. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is greedy

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has white hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Galinndan was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 16000 sp. Aquamarine (1000 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears professional attire. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has a very tight haircut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Broce was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. 3 Thunderstones.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears just a blue suit. His brown fur is knotted and matted. His half smiles and copper eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Passionate, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 140 pp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Rose (80 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp).