Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears green trousers with blue and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His copper crest is smooth and relatively long. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Kerkad hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Server

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 14000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are silver and beady.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. 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. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, In love, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he is greedy

Ideals: Opinionated, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 2700 sp.

Description: An older woman who wears a fancy red dress, she is not a threatening figure. Her blonde hair is still thick. She is baby faced.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is an amazing painter.

History: Blossom lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp. Blue quartz (16 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and brown tie. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Sage. She's also a talented Locksmith, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Locksmith again; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 gp. Amethyst (100 gp).