Description: A 5'3" southern man, he is typically in his Guard uniform. His golden hair is braided into rings. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Carter profession.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. Raer abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and to be a carter again

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp).

Description: He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a pastel scarf. He carries with him a set of halberds, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is silver and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. The war was a terrible time for him, and Erdan does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Erdan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Erdan was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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. Erdan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 2000 gp. Hematite (13 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Sard (30 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. The war was a terrible time for him, and Dayereth does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. 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: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp).