Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 4000 gp. Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (8000 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born in the east to a Mercenary, Soveliss learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered dire rats who tried to eat his hand. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1000 gp. Eye agate (9 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Erdan will drive conversation. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Extrovert, Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: He wears an entirely green suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His red hair is braided into rings. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. 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: Erevan was born the youngest of three triplets. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 500 gp. Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Sard (60 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Lucan's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was raised in a desert 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 Ploughman. He has achieved small success as a Ploughman.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.