Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and carries halberds. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

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 born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Farmer mother left her crippled. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears a red vest and prefers tan and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. She has blue eyes and a red hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. 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: To get a good night's sleep; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Nature, Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her brown fur has been sun bleached extensively. Her half smiles and copper eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her nunchaku with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her white crest is unkempt and raggedy. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is light but she possesses many yellow ritualistic tattoos. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Knight arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered south to less war torn lands. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Ella never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: PTSD, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job, In love. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.