Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Roland hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Guardian, Has a crush. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'0" when asserting himself. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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 is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: The child of a Bricklayer, who enjoyed hunting, Everard was taken on many hunting expeditions. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Everard never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Nature, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 300 gp. Red spinel (70 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Rolf was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. 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. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Attractive. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears dull red sweaters, loose violet pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed ceremonial dagger, just in case. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are amber and beady.

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. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bernard grew up listening to his mother's many stories. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears a brown shirt with thin green vertical stripes and yellow pants. He has a hunchback. His hair is brown and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Adam embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Adam lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp. Red garnet (80 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp).