Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his quarterstaff, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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 wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'7". He wears a worn and beaten armor. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. 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 Shoemaker. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1300 gp. Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Ea was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She tends to her Assassin job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2500 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears a green tunic with black highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes and is in decent physical shape. He has dyed his greying scarlet crest a little too much giving a sharp scarlet color. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Shamash liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.