Description: A 4'2" northern man, he wears professional attire. His golden hair is still thick. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Rurik lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears a colorful flower in her brass crest. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Vezera was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Rich purple corundum (600 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Azurite (13 gp).

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She wears her red hair down. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Thiala abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her white hair is knotted and matted. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 3000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1700 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (30 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Isabella lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Detective they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Adventurer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 500 gp. Moss agate (7 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears professional attire, she is not a threatening figure. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Vistra was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Silver pearl (160 gp).

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: Qualen is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. The war was a terrible time for him, and Qualen does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Minor magic item.