Description: This slender woman stands about 5'10". She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length black hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. 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 Painter. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His blonde hair is cut short. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Sage does, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'4" when asserting himself. His white hair is singed and shortened. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp. White opal (900 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp).

Description: He wears a tan coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. His hair is silver and curly. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Knight born in the past three hundred years. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Knight job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Aquamarine (500 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Malachite (13 gp).

Description: This woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her crest is brass and very short. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 290 gp.