Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. His skin is dark but he possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a very tight haircut. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. With wild brown hair. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was born in the north. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is wearing a long, blue, dusty cloak. She keeps her black hair in a flapper bob. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is a great chef.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 3000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Amber (70 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 2'8" northern woman, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born in a small forest village. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: 6'8" and muscular, this southern man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has done his best to style his rusty crest to look like a famous performer. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Bidreked lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1200 gp.