Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Everard was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mason and was forced into it by his family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: 6'0" and muscular, this northern man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Henry was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Mentor, Debt. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. 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 cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Opinionated, Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: He wears a blue vest and prefers black and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. 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 Dyer. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Dyer.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears baggy red pantaloons and a brown scarf. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His ears are large.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp.