Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Qualen was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This woman wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears silk and lounges about seductively and is in decent physical shape. Her gray fur is heavily combed to the right. Her skin is flawless and her blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. 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 Butcher. She tends to her Butcher job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Black pearl (200 gp). Sard (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a red costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her parents enrolled her in a Paladin school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a mite stocky and prefers to wear flannel. She has slicked back blonde hair. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Farmer and was forced into it by her family; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Chain shirt.