Description: This woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. Her long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her ears are large.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 Engraver. She has worked as a Engraver like her mother before her.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Engraver responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp).

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is dressed in earthy colors with a green and black handkerchief worn on her right side. Her white hair is lengthy. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She got into the Bookbinder business at a young age. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To be a Mortician again.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful, Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 70 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: Standing 5'2", this man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His first spouse was a Locksmith, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. 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: To be a Locksmith again.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He dresses well, wearing violet shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He is portly but not overly obese. He has shaved his head bald. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Shepherd they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Mortician, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: 6'1" and muscular, this northern man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 130 gp. Obsidian (7 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.