Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears red trousers with blue and red striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has slicked back black hair. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 800 sp. A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 5'0" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has moderate length auburn hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. 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 giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Arannis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: This man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his left hand. He keeps his white crest in a pixie cut. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He was born in the south. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 230 gp. 1 Half-Plate.