Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Hugh was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'5" when asserting himself. His hair is short and silver. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His silver hair is knotted and matted. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2300 sp. Onyx (70 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a dagger, but if one is not available he will default to his nunchaku. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the north. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 17000 cp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He is portly but not overly obese. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born in the north. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Dilettante work with an outfit from a few towns over. Dilettante work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 11000 cp.