Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears baggy white pantaloons and a brown scarf. She has a hunchback. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small white clips. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born to a Beggar, her father struggled to pay the bills. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her golden hair is wavy and long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. 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 has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Sensitive, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: He wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. He carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished longbow as well. He has black hair. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. 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.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 700 sp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears dull black sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed shield, just in case. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. Marbas is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Marbas grew up listening to his father's many stories. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 260 gp. 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is light but she possesses many yellow ritualistic tattoos. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, yellow shirt, and black tie. Her head has been shaved. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.