Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and he perpetually has his flail ready. His tied-back hair is brown. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Ahvain hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Ahvain was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ahvain decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. 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. Ahvain fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: French accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears suspenders and red workpants. His shirt is green, and he wears a heavy red leather apron most of the time. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 190 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears tattered old clothes. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Heian is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Heian has worked very hard to control his curse. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Arannis hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spice Merchant and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 7000 sp. Fire opal (1100 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Rose (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized pastel coat. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His first spouse was a Dilettante, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.