Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Gerard enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, Disease, Greedy. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 600 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). 1 Buckler.

Description: Standing 5'8", this woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. She has green eyes.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. 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 raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She is physically well-built. She has silver hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Tyna lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She married young, but lost her spouse to dire rats. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'4" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a pastel tunic with green highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her fur is gray and curly. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Tailor. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He wears a blue shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and black pants, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'3" when asserting himself. His hair is long and black with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. The war was a terrible time for him, and Eberdeb does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When Eberdeb reached his early adolescence his Gnome mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 350 gp.