Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is typically in his Animal Trainer uniform. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has worked as a Animal Trainer like his mother before him.

Motivation: To be a Bookbinder again.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (30 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He prefers to wear flannel. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Laucian lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has worked as a Farmer like his mother before him.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 pp. Hematite (11 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp).

Description: This light-skinned male wears a tan small hat and tan clothes. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the left. He is baby faced.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. 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 would like to get married and retire; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Pacifist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 300 pp. Iolite (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.