Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a black cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A gifted student he started as a Ruler, but he got bored and became a Tailor. He struck the Tailor job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 4000 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp).

Description: 4'8" and muscular, this western man is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has wavy red hair. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 pp. Obsidian (8 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished shortbow as well. He has a very tight haircut. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. A friendly and beautiful Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Blacksmith hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 gp. Blue quartz (8 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp).