Description: He is lean but muscular and wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. A true patriot, Heward would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's in love; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Everburning torch. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He is physically well-built. He has moderate length silver hair. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 10000 sp. Deep green spinel (160 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Malachite (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His long white hair reaches down to his waist. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Human conditions. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1400 sp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (20 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp).

Description: He has a missing left arm. He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. His golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Robert was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 40 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears long strands of ruby and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished monstrous two handed axe as well. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. 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: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. When Frederick reached his early adolescence his Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.