Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She carries a battered greataxe and tarnished sai as well. She has a very tight haircut. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Emotional, Antagonistic. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He carries with him a set of glaives on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. He has amber eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

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: Rurik lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 8000 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (60 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: She wears a simple black robe with grey stripes complete with hood. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longbows and halberds. Her hair is brown and curly. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Ilga lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a spice merchant and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'4" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. Her red hair is still thick. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Enidda hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Enidda 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 Enidda. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp.