Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Architect. His hair is blonde and very short. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. 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 west. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bastard sword.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. Heward enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Heward was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats.

Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 gp. Azurite (14 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is dressed in earthy colors with a white and brown handkerchief worn on his right side. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Don isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Don has worked very hard to control his curse. After a long history of fighting, Don and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This eastern man tends to wear a large blue jacket. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is brown and curly. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gilbert studied abroad. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Gilbert was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to be a courier again

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 gp. Lapis lazuli (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.