Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She has a large red mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her pastel robe. She has wavy black hair. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

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 part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2000 cp. Rhodochrosite (11 gp). 1 Silk rope.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a bow on her belt. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Mardred lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 330 gp. Jade (80 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears dull grey sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed crossbow, just in case. His golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Bonds: Family, Job, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 700 sp. Jade (100 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born in the north. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: Just what you see.