Description: This southern man likes to wear tan tank tops with white pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Robert is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He works hard and plays hard.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the south were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 40000 cp. Black star sapphire (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). 4 Antitoxin.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. He has no hair. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 5000 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He bought a shortbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a priest again

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature, Debt, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is dressed in an above average manner. He has shaved his head bald. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Gomory lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this eastern man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Layabout but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Spy they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Layabout, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Breastplate.