Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His silver hair is cut short. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born in the north. Through the years after Heian was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Heian's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man wears just a brown suit. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. Varis enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 250 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. His green eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker blue hat.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: He got into the Butcher business at a young age. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Butcher for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Butcher responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He wears bulky green painted plate armor. He carries with him a set of longbows, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 300 gp. Malachite (6 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. He wears a colorful flower in his blonde hair. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the east to a Sculptor, Ahvain learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Sculptor. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 7000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (170 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.