Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His bronze crest is singed and shortened. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Norkruuth was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Norkruuth's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bather and was forced into it by his family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Onyx (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. Naal 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: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Naal was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Smoky quartz (70 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). White pearl (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He carries a battered morningstar and tarnished shield as well. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady hazel eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born in the west. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 gp. Sard (70 gp). White opal (400 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Rose (70 gp).

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: Rurik is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born in the west. After coming to the age of reason, Rurik took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull blue iron scale mail. His gray fur is heavily combed to the right. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Smoking was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He became a Armorer soon after.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Armorer responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 50 pp.