Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She has amber eyes and a yellow hat with a green feather.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Black pearl (1600 gp). Red garnet (120 gp).

Description: She wears white trousers with yellow and green striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her childhood dream was to be a Seamstress, but she was a colossal failure. She has worked as a Fisher like her mother before her.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1000 gp. Carnelian (70 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear pastel pants and tee shirts. His long brown fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. To his fellows he 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. At a young age his mother died while driving off some goblins. His father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in dagger use. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 400 gp. Hematite (5 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Miller but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Miller hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Disciplined, Pacifist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.