Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. After a long history of fighting, Agnes and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp).

Description: He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His white hair is thinning but still full. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Gilthur and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears an entirely blue suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman stands a little under 3'3" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.