Description: He is a mite stocky and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Rurik is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he prefers to wear flannel. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Ostracized due to the martial 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 has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he is content

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 130 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp).

Description: An older woman who wears tattered old clothes, she is not a threatening figure. Her white fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Quick fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a masseuse and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in the north to a Butcher, Shaena learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp).