Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a black tunic with white highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Vanuath was born with his mother's beautiful face. He worked as a nervous Bookbinder and found it very stressful. He became a Bookbinder soon after.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He likes to wear grey tank tops with tan pants. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Theren was born with his mother's beautiful face. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rolen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He prefers to wear brown clothing when he does not wear armor. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Passionate, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2200 gp. Carnelian (70 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he usually wears his blue robe and has his kukri always slung over his shoulder, and is pretty ugly. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. 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: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Thamior was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Being a Sailor kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.