Description: This northern woman tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her clothes are grease stained in places. With wild golden hair. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Nurkara was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Laborer. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Sard (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Amber (70 gp). Rose (20 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Red garnet (70 gp).

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 5000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (60 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. 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 is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Born to a Miner, her father struggled to pay the bills. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. After a long history of fighting, Werydd and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and elven compassion

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 4000 gp. Aquamarine (600 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a green tunic with blue highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His white crest has been sun bleached extensively. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He tends to his Crown-heir job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Secretive, Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: In love, Poor, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 5000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His head has been shaved. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1000 pp. Black pearl (1200 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Canary diamond (6000 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Sard (30 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp).

Description: She wears a fancy grey dress. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Gifted from a young age, Oriff studied abroad. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 pp. Jet (60 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears just a blue suit, and is pretty ugly. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His first spouse was a Barkeep, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Barkeep they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Marshal, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He is content; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 5000 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (60 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).