Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. A true patriot, Cumpen would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Cumpen was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Military, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Shanairla and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 90 pp. Tourmaline (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He is baby faced.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Priest but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 900 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears silk and lounges about seductively, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her white hair up. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Elven people; and half-elven compassion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 sp. Rose (50 gp).

Description: This southern man wears a blue shirt, with a yellow mid length shorts with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His clothes are grease stained in places. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful, Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.