Description: She stands about 2'8" and wears bulky red painted plate armor. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has shaved her head bald. She is baby faced.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vani grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Disciplined, Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker white hat.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Dyer; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears bulky violet painted plate armor. His long blonde hair reaches down to his waist. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Crown-heir. He's also a talented Performer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 600 gp. Silver pearl (90 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. She carries with her a set of crossbows on her belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. 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: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Courier. She has worked as a Courier like her mother before her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to be a cartwright again

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Malachite (16 gp).