Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His brown hair is braided into rings. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. The family's rival house kidnapped his sister with the intent that his sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 11000 sp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1500 gp).

Description: A 4'7" eastern man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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-brother.

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. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 pp. Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He carries a battered lance and tarnished scimitar as well. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit men.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Naeris grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 then took over the family business and is one of the better Assassin for hire.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1200 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (70 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is short and chestnut. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He hates Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He worked as a nervous Architect and found it very stressful. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and balancing his hectic life and new architect responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 15000 sp. Gold and ruby ring (4000 gp).