Description: This northern man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His clothes are grease stained in places. His tied-back hair is white. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Aust was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Paelias speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Paelias alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 600 pp. Coral (120 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). Emerald (400 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is always cut to a buzz. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Halimath lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 3000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.