Description: He is a mite stocky and is dressed in an above average manner. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 6000 sp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (70 gp). Silver ewer (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a red shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and blue pants. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His tied-back hair is silver. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. 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: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 east. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane, Addict. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears long strands of ruby and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and is pretty ugly. He has golden hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man is wearing a long, red, dusty cloak. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His auburn hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. 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: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His childhood dream was to be a Spice Merchant, but he was a colossal failure. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Cartwright for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Fire opal (1100 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp).

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, blue shirt, and brown tie. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His black hair is lengthy. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. After months of barely getting by, Galinndan managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 200 pp. Azurite (7 gp). Pink pearl (90 gp).