Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears bulky green painted plate armor. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Erdan enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Erdan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. 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: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and to be a barber again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 gp. Onyx (80 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Sard (80 gp). Malachite (12 gp).

Description: This man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His red hair is cut short. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 72. 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. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. While he appears to be a normal Elf, 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane, Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp).

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rolen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2200 gp. Carnelian (70 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he usually wears his blue robe and has his kukri always slung over his shoulder, and is pretty ugly. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Thamior was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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. Being a Sailor kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.