Description: He is in excellent shape and dresses like a well dressed Carter does. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Nicholas is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Carter. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Carter.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1400 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'11" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears bulky grey painted plate armor. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Don was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and revenge

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His brown hair is singed and shortened. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his top black hat.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Simon 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. After a long history of fighting, Simon and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses like a well dressed Interpreter does. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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 Interpreter. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Interpreter for hire.

Motivation: To be a Fortune-teller again.

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and carries ceremonial daggers. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Now he works as a poetry tutor during his time off.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Logical. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp.