Description: This late middle aged woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her morningstar with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt and is in decent physical shape. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born into a rich family. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Scribe. She has worked as a Scribe like her mother before her.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He usually wears his violet robe and has his pickaxe always slung over his shoulder. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He married young, but lost his spouse to giants. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away.

Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Brown-green garnet (140 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a pastel shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and violet pants. His fur is orange, silky, and of moderate length. His skin is flawless and his copper eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Cask 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: He was raised in a mountains tribe. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Cask fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 90 gp. Banded agate (9 gp).