Description: This late middle aged man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants and is in decent physical shape. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Norsko alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her hair is short and chestnut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 69. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is an amazing painter.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She tends to her Ploughman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1200 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has black hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: She got into the Sculptor business at a young age. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Panana never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a black cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born in a small island village. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Navigator; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Star ruby (700 gp). Hematite (16 gp).