Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears dull brown sweaters, loose pastel pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed flail, just in case. He has a hunchback. He has moderate length auburn hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His first spouse was a Scribe, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp).

Description: An older man who is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, he is not a threatening figure. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 7. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 4000 sp. Iolite (40 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His black hair is still thick. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: Theren hails from a village terrorized by drow. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and a deep hatred of drow

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and green robe with the hood down. His hair is chestnut and curly. His eyes are brown.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 190 pp. Golden yellow topaz (800 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a tan shirt with thin green vertical stripes and black pants. His hair is short and auburn. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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: Rolen lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Sellsword for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Job, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.