Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and likes to wear tan tank tops with blue pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He dropped out of school to support his sick mother, and resented it. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 290 pp. Obsidian (6 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Rael hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, In love, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. Coral (90 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Moss agate (8 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'5". He typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born in a small forest village. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears bulky black painted plate armor. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Gifted from a young age, Fivin studied abroad. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 350 pp. Malachite (4 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Sard (30 gp). Emerald (400 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Amber (40 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat, and is pretty ugly. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Raer will drive conversation. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Raer lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Barrister they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Server, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Server and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Server

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 pp.