Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly scythes and pickaxes. His silver hair is thinning but still full. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Anthony is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Barber kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands; and revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 140 gp. White pearl (140 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears grey trousers with white and red striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. 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 born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Shy, Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 40 pp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a simple brown robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has a hunchback. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 cp. Peridot (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: 6'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She prefers to wear green clothing when she does not wear armor. Her red crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Thava was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Sage responsibilities is difficult; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Passionate, Extrovert. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Sage

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Hematite (9 gp).