Description: This man wears professional attire, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His white hair is braided into rings. He is baby faced.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 gp. Eye agate (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Gifted from a young age, Thomas studied abroad. A gifted student he started as a Bowyer, but he got bored and became a Unemployed. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A 6'0" northern man, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Drogo was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. He is portly but not overly obese. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to be a jeweler again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and white handkerchief worn on his right side. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.