Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He dresses well, wearing tan shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He comes from a rich western family. 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 moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Solid gold idol (800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'8" and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Hunter lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is black and curly. 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 able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Henry hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Henry was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Banded agate (16 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame, and he perpetually has his whip ready. His golden hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To be a Unemployed again; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp. Banded agate (8 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a tattered pair of loose pastel pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Aldous was born with his father's beautiful face. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Engraver and was forced into it by his family; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 60 pp. Solid gold idol (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.