Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His head has been shaved. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Conrad lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying south to reunite his family. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. He carries with him a set of greatswords, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Diggory's homeland. Diggory decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp. Iolite (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he dresses like a well dressed Ruler does. His white hair is singed and shortened. His ears are large.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He's also a talented Body Guard, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a body guard again

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has no hair. He is baby faced.

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 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: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Cory liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Cory fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 23000 sp. Smoky quartz (80 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he usually wears his green robe and has his crossbow always slung over his shoulder. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. Reynard is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Reynard was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 100 gp.