Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She wears a tan costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. She has a hunchback. She has wavy red hair. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Spice Merchant. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. A true patriot, Althaea would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: Bernard lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is cut close to his head. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Rurik was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants. His white hair is lengthy. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Igden grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Igden. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. Peridot (80 gp).