Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Gerard speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: Gerard was born with his father's beautiful face. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Gerard has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp. Hematite (8 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears red trousers with brown and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is an epitome of beauty. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His skin is flawless and his green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in a small forest village. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Nature, In love. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This light-skinned male wears a black feathered hat and black clothes. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is red and curly. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Emotional, Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 600 sp. Jasper (20 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Tim alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp.