Description: Standing 3'2", this woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. She is portly but not overly obese. Her silver hair is wavy and long. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Gifted from a young age, Emmeline studied abroad. 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 left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 20000 cp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (150 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man prefers to wear pastel clothing when he does not wear armor. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has a hunchback. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Carter but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born in the east. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Buvvie's homeland. Buvvie decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp). 4 Thunderstones.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his bow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and he perpetually has his bow ready. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Gormogord was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Gormogord decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gormogord fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Server

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Bloodstone (40 gp).