Description: A moderately attractive man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He got into the Marshal business at a young age. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and green robe with the hood down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'6" when asserting himself. His black hair is still thick. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Gerald speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Gerald was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Bonds: Job, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 10 pp. Citrine (60 gp). 1 Smokesticks. 2 Thunderstones. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a yellow tunic with grey highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around his shoes. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Dean grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He's also a talented Slave Trader, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Revenge; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Extrovert, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a husky man, who is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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 vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His first spouse was a Bather, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and doesn't want to be a mason and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Persistence, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and pastel handkerchief worn on his right side, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'2" when asserting himself. He is bald on top and has large chestnut tufts of hair around his ears. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his broad brown hat.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Miles embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. 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, Miles is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Miles was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.