Description: Standing 3'8", this man wears an entirely blue suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Oppleby was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to protect his home

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 pp. Rose (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Hematite (12 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Obsidian (12 gp).

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (60 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1200 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with grey slacks. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She got into the Stableman business at a young age. 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 Stableman. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Stableman responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is long and red with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small violet clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.