Description: 5'11" and muscular, this northern man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. 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 to loving parents in a slum to the north. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 6'6". He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his trident with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and his gloved hand is found clutching a trident. His hair is always cut to a buzz. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Arnold is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Arnold lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Miner for the past few years.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'3". He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. His chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He's also a talented Jeweler, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new glassblower responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2900 sp.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He carries a battered hammer and tarnished club as well. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Miller they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Shepherd, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears bulky yellow painted plate armor. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His long red hair reaches down to his waist. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Gerard was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Human people; and revenge

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 40 pp. Hematite (9 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.