Description: An older woman who wears tattered old clothes, she is not a threatening figure. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. 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. After a long history of fighting, Caelynn and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He wears baggy tan pantaloons and a grey scarf. He carries with him a set of quarterstaffs, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Korfel was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Gardener. He has worked as a Gardener like his father before him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and balancing his hectic life and new gardener responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, and she perpetually has her halberd ready. She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. Red garnet (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her golden hair is lengthy. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Shamil embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born in the south to a Spice Merchant, Shamil learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1000 cp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tabaxi artifacts is her passion; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence, Philantrophist. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.