Description: He wears a simple brown robe with white stripes complete with hood. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Rurik embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Rurik was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. He has gold crest. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His first spouse was a Carpenter, they had one daughter, 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 Carpenter they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Guard, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This malnourished man wears a black small hat and black clothes. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He worked as a nervous Carter and found it very stressful. During his travels, Ar-Karo and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Ar-Karo discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Ar-Karo fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: To be a Armorer again; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. He is an epitome of beauty. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and to be a servant again

Ideals: Justice, Athletic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears long strands of amethyst and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. Her silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. 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: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Kasdeya was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Kasdeya decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 4 Smokesticks.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. She wears a mask on her face.

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. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her first spouse was a Adventurer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 200 sp. A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her black hair is still thick. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Junk Dealer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has wavy blonde hair. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: The child of a Fletcher, who enjoyed hunting, Meriele was taken on many hunting expeditions. A gifted student she started as a Fletcher, but she got bored and became a Bookbinder. She's also a talented Fletcher, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and pastel handkerchief worn on her left side. Her black hair is wavy and long. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Juliana was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 2200 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.