Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears tattered old clothes. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Gifted from a young age, Nirgel studied abroad. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 500 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (30 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (30 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, marred by beers. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: The child of a Tanner, who enjoyed hunting, Alexandre was taken on many hunting expeditions. Alexandre 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. Alexandre decided he wanted neither the life of his father 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. Being a Ruler kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1700 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Spice Merchant. His hair is chestnut and curly. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born in the west. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 now owns his own business.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats, and he perpetually has his sai ready. He has black hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

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 is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Ulfgar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents enrolled him in a Ranger school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a bather again

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: He wears an entirely grey suit with red socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 390 gp. Eye agate (11 gp).