Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair is short and white. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Caeldrim was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Caeldrim grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Caeldrim. Being a Hunter 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: To prove his worth to the world; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Job, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. His white hair is singed and shortened. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Ruler father left him crippled. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (20 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. After a long history of fighting, Ahvain and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 2000 gp. Solid gold idol (1200 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He usually wears his black robe and has his pickaxe always slung over his shoulder. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Fortune-teller. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 500 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1900 gp).