Description: An older woman who dresses like a well dressed Shoemaker does, she is not a threatening figure. She keeps her copper crest in a flapper bob. This gold eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. A true patriot, Surina would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Shoemaker for the past few years.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Military, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She keeps her brown hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. She's also a talented Gardener, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. He has a very tight haircut. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of illithids once and for all.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Thomas never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, In love. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 140 gp. Bloodstone (40 gp).

Description: He wears a white shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and tan pants. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Performer. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Performer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and expand his business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is renowned for her bright white dresses and hats. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: Callie hails from a village terrorized by brigands. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants revenge against brigands; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 500 sp.