Description: This late middle aged man wears baggy violet pantaloons and a red scarf and is in decent physical shape. His white hair is knotted and matted. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Herbalist. After a long history of fighting, John and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is his passion; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: He likes to wear blue tank tops with red pants, and carries nunchakus. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Healer profession.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Barber. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 19000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'8" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a pastel suit, black shirt, and red tie. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He tends to his Spice Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. He has a hunchback. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. His ears are large.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears professional attire. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Mason arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1300 sp.