Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is silver and curly. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and doesn't want to be a weaver and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Red spinel (40 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Jade (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is dark red and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nicor grew up listening to his father's many stories. Nicor abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

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

Possessions: 90 pp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (160 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 6'0". She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it, and her gloved hand is found clutching a pickaxe. Her hair is auburn and very short. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Ermina lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'2", this man wears violet trousers with black and blue striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length red hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Gennal was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Gennal decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1600 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp).