Description: 6'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears skinny pants and wears a black and yellow robe with the hood down. She has dyed her greying gold crest a little too much giving a sharp gold color. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich, In love. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior and is in decent physical shape. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Veloptima was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Veloptima's homeland. Veloptima decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His crest, while still mostly brass, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. A gifted student he started as a Spice Merchant, but he got bored and became a Shepherd. He has achieved small success as a Shepherd.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 90 gp. Red spinel (150 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears professional attire. His rusty crest, when down, is lengthy. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Mozikth lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 700 sp.