Description: He wears green trousers with tan and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears a colorful flower in his purple hair. His fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (180 gp).

Description: She wears professional attire. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her hair is cut close to her head. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. Now she works as a singing tutor during her time off.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 270 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (10 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. He has blonde hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Jabbie isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Jabbie was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Jabbie decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Iolite (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a fancy black dress. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Nogu wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Commoner, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Nogu was raised in a hard working conservative environment. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She became a Sellsword soon after.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love, Debt. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a white cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She wears her white hair up. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. 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: Nedda lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. As a very small child her family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. Her mother, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect her and cast a teleportation spell that whisked her away. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Nedda was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.