Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He dresses well, wearing green shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 53. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Sard (20 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a large white jacket. He carries with him a set of nunchakus on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. His hair is silver and very short. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in the south to a Banker, Frederick learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He struck the Banker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Jade (90 gp). 1 Good lock.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull grey iron scale mail. His hair is blonde and curly. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

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

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in the south to a Shoemaker, Bernard learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He tends to his Shoemaker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Job, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Masseuse arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Cynical, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.