Description: This woman dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is an amazing painter.

History: Fabien lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gifted student he started as a Mayor, but he got bored and became a Sculptor. He has achieved small success as a Sculptor.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Peridot (20 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She is portly but not overly obese. She has done her best to style her black hair to look like a famous performer. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Isabella's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: Gifted from a young age, Isabella studied abroad. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 160 gp. Malachite (4 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears long strands of amber and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Kilia hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Kilia was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 380 gp. Onyx (20 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with brown slacks, and is pretty ugly. Her scarlet crest is smooth and relatively long. Her ears are large.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 50 gp.