Description: This late middle aged man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull blue iron scale mail and is in decent physical shape. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He takes great joy in being the best Merchant in town.

History: Born in the west to a Merchant, Cory learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Merchant. During his travels, Cory and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Cory discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Cory fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: He stands about 6'6" and is renowned for his bright grey suits and hats. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp. Smoky quartz (30 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'5" when asserting himself. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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 is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Hunter was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 19000 cp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and is pretty ugly. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1100 sp. Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears bulky white painted plate armor. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp). Malachite (14 gp). 1 Simple lock. 1 Superior lock.