Description: 3'5" and muscular, this northern man wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His tied-back hair is golden. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat and is in decent physical shape. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Logical, Fighting. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He is portly but not overly obese. His silver crest is knotted and matted. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Baradad alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'5". She wears just a blue suit, and her gloved hand is found clutching a ceremonial dagger. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Hatae is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Merchant. She struck the Merchant job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 700 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (160 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.