Description: This northern man is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and black handkerchief worn on his right side. His clothes are grease stained in places. His black hair is still thick. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Rurik is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Rurik lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Sensitive, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 400 gp. Violet garnet (800 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Emerald (1500 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'0" and muscular, this eastern man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his small white hat.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is a great chef.

History: Born in the east to a Guard, Pígug learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Guard. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 370 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Jade (60 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Peridot (70 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. Unvera was born on a far eastern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Carpenter. She has worked as a Carpenter like her mother before her.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job, Slave. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She is portly but not overly obese. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Tyna grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Tabaxi companion (her 'brother'). She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Fletcher. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She's in love; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 700 gp.