Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears his brown hair down. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: He got into the Interpreter business at a young age. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Ernest has worked very hard to control his curse. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: 6'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a pastel collared shirt and green pants. He accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Ralf was born the youngest of three triplets. Ralf abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Baker they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Ruler, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Immigrant, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He's in love; and doesn't want to be a animal trainer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a worn and beaten armor, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has moderate length silver hair. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Shane was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Shane never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Mentor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks in third person

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

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his pickaxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 20000 cp. Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Sard (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.