Description: A man of a pale complexion, he dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with violet slacks. His dark red hair is braided into rings. His black eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and balancing his hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Job, Poor, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1400 gp. Azurite (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. Her golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Ella was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's in love; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gray eyes and a brown hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. After a long history of fighting, Thradal and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she usually wears her blue robe and has her whip always slung over her shoulder. Her hair is brown and curly. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Debt. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. Her hair is golden and very short. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.