Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has a hunchback. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Carrie lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Slave. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1000 gp. Moss agate (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a Scribe first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A gifted student he started as a Spice Merchant, but he got bored and became a Scribe. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Scribe responsibilities is difficult; and to be a spice merchant again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: This man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. His hair is red and curly. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. 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: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 4000 gp. Moss agate (6 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Emerald (800 gp). White opal (800 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Fire opal (800 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Blue star sapphire (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This western man tends to wear a large brown jacket. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Carrie grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 7000 sp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1700 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has wavy brown hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born in the east. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Insane, Shy, Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 2000 sp.