Description: She stands about 3'3" and wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is short and red. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Abalaba was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Bonds: Guardian, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden pearl (100 gp).

Description: He is typically in his Baker uniform. He carries with him a set of clubs on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. He's also a talented Courier, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she usually wears her green robe and has her sickle always slung over her shoulder. Her rusty crest is braided into rings. Her eyes are gold.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

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

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 190 pp. Red garnet (140 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it; and balancing his hectic life and new glassblower responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 sp.