Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His ears are large.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He got into the Blacksmith business at a young age. He was taken from his home at a very young age. After a long history of fighting, Peren and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 190 pp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a simple black robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His white hair is lengthy. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. 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 been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jasper (70 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and is typically in his Hunter uniform. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He got into the Hunter business at a young age. 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 has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He tends to wear a large red jacket. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He got into the Unemployed business at a young age. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 2000 sp. Violet garnet (1100 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Jade (70 gp).

Description: He wears a black coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head, and carries longswords. His brown hair is lengthy. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Rael was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2000 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.