Description: This late middle aged man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down and is in decent physical shape. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson brown hat.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Dean was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and balancing his hectic life and new apothecary responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is baby faced.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Roger alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This northern man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is white and curly. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Sellsword born in the past three hundred years. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Clerebold was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gifted student he started as a Bellfounder, but he got bored and became a Sellsword. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Hematite (12 gp).

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He carries a battered lance and tarnished pickaxe as well. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Gunter is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Gunter was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His chestnut hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and balancing his hectic life and new apothecary responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp.