Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Secretive, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is dressed in earthy colors with a pastel and green handkerchief worn on her left side. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Emerald lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 30000 cp. Hematite (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a red deerstalker hat and red clothes and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has brown eyes and a red hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: The child of a Navigator, who enjoyed hunting, Harriet was taken on many hunting expeditions. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp).

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Spice Merchant business.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Passionate, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.