Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears brown trousers with black and tan striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Werydd was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic, Athletic. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has a hunchback. She has no hair. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Artin will drive conversation. The war was a terrible time for her, and Artin does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: Standing 5'7", this woman wears a yellow coat over a pastel low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 19000 cp. Violet garnet (800 gp). Sard (60 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and dresses like a well dressed Engraver does. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born in the south to a Engraver, Ûshbaka learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Engraver.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull brown iron scale mail. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. 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 raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 140 gp.