Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He wears his brown hair up. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Frug isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Frug was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Guard work with an outfit from a few towns over. Guard work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Guard for hire.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 180 pp. Black pearl (1400 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp).

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. Her hair is silver and very short. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Ahinar hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: The child of a Brewer, who enjoyed hunting, Ahinar was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 2800 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'7" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his long brown fur kept up in a rat tail. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was taken from his home at a very young age. 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 to meet his childhood hero; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1600 gp. Zircon (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Heian is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Spy they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Locksmith, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and doesn't want to be a locksmith and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Family, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.