Description: This malnourished man wears yellow trousers with white and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Miner. The war was a terrible time for him, and Thervan does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. White pearl (160 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Malachite (15 gp).

Description: He wears a simple black robe with brown stripes complete with hood, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'8" when asserting himself. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Aramil was born with his father's beautiful face. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. After a long history of fighting, Aramil and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it, marred by beers. His tied-back hair is silver. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 11000 sp. Red garnet (100 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Aelar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 170 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears his auburn hair up. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Arannis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Arannis was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Aquamarine (1400 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.