Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He carries with him a set of quarterstaffs on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: He got into the Stableman business at a young age. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp. Pink pearl (40 gp). Rose (40 gp). 4 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: He wears a tight fitting violet shirt and pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'10" when asserting himself. He has brown hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: The child of a Shipwright, who enjoyed hunting, Robert was taken on many hunting expeditions. His first spouse was a Shipwright, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Family, Nature, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 200 gp. Azurite (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

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 loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Bertram was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He uses divination through singing.

History: Richard was raised in a hard working conservative environment. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Scribe again; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Ernest is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: Further expansion of business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Passionate, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Rich, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Eye agate (16 gp).