Description: He wears a grey costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is long and red with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. 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: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears skinny pants and wears a black and yellow robe with the hood down, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. The war was a terrible time for him, and Bertram does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He got into the Bowyer business at a young age. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Bertram was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: In love, Military, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 22000 cp. Banded agate (13 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Born in the east to a Guard, Heward learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 160 pp. Jade (50 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Jade (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Cartwright who has hired him part-time. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has worked as a Cartwright like his mother before him.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Has a crush, Job, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Full Plate.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and tan handkerchief worn on his left side. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born in a small desert village. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Philantrophist. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 15000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.