Into Peril, For Glory

Alexandru Croitoru is born to a large Oameni family eeking out an existance as tinkers in Abria's"Halfling Quarter".

Riven Telstandis is born into a clan of Palesian Scouts who survived as brigands preying on travelers in the Palesia Woodlands.

The Mondovì, a merchant galley carrying passengers from Varim to Alios was boarded by pirates who intended to sell their captives into slavery. Through luck, cunning, and grit, four individuals managed to escape the pirates: a Xianese wushi, a warrior from the Ashkuz Xhanate, a Scout of Palesia, and a novice of The Order of the Great Mother of Mercy.

Having fled to Labrax Bay to escape Abrian authorities, the Oameni rogue, Alexandru Croitoru encounters the other party members in the marketsquare of Fort Merula.

While exploring the Shrine of Naeia Aeriscae, Riven Telstandis scouts ahead to follow some goblinoid tracks. However, she does not return from her scouting. Her compainions are not able to find any trace of her in the catacombs.

Having fufilled his obligation to Magistrate Tito Merula, Zhuge Liang decides to split from the adventuring party as they elect to go northwards, across the Central Sea to Eknopolis. Having already traveled from there, he continues, alone, southward to the Senu Desert in hopes of finding the location of the Lost Library of the Myrmex.

Accumulating heavy gambling debts through participating in crooked dice games, Asbjørn Þórsteinnsson is forced to join the gladiator stable of Gallienus Kerularios in order to pay back his debts or die trying. In the arena, he meets a group of adventurers who were placed in a similar predicament.