Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. He is an epitome of beauty. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. 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 a Doppelganger in disguise. Dean abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol. 1 Silver holy symbol. 1 Good lock. 1 Small steel mirror.

Description: This malnourished man wears a white vest and prefers tan and white shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'5", this man tends to wear a large green jacket. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. 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 runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gifted student he started as a Bowyer, but he got bored and became a Stableman. During his travels, Everard and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Everard discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Everard fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Insomniac, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp. Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Eye agate (4 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his scythe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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 son.

History: He was born in the west. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Fisher. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Shepherd they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Fisher, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 800 gp.