Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears professional attire. His hair is red and very short. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Hematite (11 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are brown.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Body Guard but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To protect his home; and to be a slave trader again

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is white and curly. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his small tan hat.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Painter. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, John and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To be a Jeweler again.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born in the west to a Layabout, Geoffrey learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Layabout.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 gp. Freshwater pearl (7 gp). 1 Silk rope. 1 Disguise kit. 1 Silver holy symbol.