Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Norman was born the youngest of three triplets. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He keeps his auburn hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He uses divination through singing.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 400 sp. Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp).

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a brown shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and tan pants. He wears his chestnut hair up. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Adelard was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his halberd, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Nicholas was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Navigator. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and retire the richest man in the east

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Lazy. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 60 pp.