Description: This malnourished man wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Berrian speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Priest business.

History: Born in the west to a Priest, Berrian learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Berrian was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He tends to his Priest job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 pp. Black pearl (600 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a blue scarf. His red hair is cut short. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Barber. He has worked as a Barber like his mother before him.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and expand his business

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Bonds: Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Emerald (500 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp).

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and carries spears. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is a great chef.

History: Erdan was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 2300 gp. Malachite (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Amethyst (110 gp). Moonstone (70 gp).

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. His red hair is long and unkept. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Banker. He has worked as a Banker like his mother before him.

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

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a green armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Halimath lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Halimath 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 Halimath. Being a Shoemaker 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 share knowledge with the world; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 230 pp. Blue quartz (13 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Amber (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Citrine (20 gp).