Description: This slender man stands about 6'3". He wears bulky black painted plate armor. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born in the south to a Marshal, Adelard learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Human activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Human doctor. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Marshal.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Slave, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 44000 sp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Through the years after Nicholas was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Nicholas's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 gp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Moss agate (11 gp).

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He is physically well-built. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Optimist, Extrovert, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 60 pp. Smoky quartz (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He sports a flattop hair cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 60 pp. Pink pearl (90 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Jasper (30 gp).

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull yellow iron scale mail, and he perpetually has his rapier ready. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He is baby faced.

Personality: He hates Humans with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Kody was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Kody's homeland. Kody decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.