Description: This tall, slender man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His auburn hair is still thick. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Enemies, In love. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: This man wears baggy green pantaloons and a brown scarf. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his left hand. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the east to a Dyer, Naal learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. 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 spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 11000 sp. Alexandrite (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Peridot (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'1" and muscular, this southern man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his feathered brown hat.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Brewer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Galinndan grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Galinndan. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Job, Military, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Blue quartz (12 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp).

Description: An older man who is dressed in an above average manner, he is not a threatening figure. His auburn hair is braided into rings. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Rael was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Rael decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1800 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp).

Description: Standing 5'2", this man wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. 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: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.