Description: This tall, slender woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her hand crossbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. With bright brown hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and expand her business

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. With wild chestnut hair. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Tana embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She got into the Adventurer business at a young age. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She tends to her Adventurer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 sp. Blue quartz (11 gp).

Description: He stands about 6'8" and wears a green collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His crest is blue and curly. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Flaws: Sensitive, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 800 sp. Onyx (30 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a Apothecary first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dwarven companion (his 'brother'). He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 330 gp.