Description: He wears a fancy red suit. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: The child of a Cartwright, who enjoyed hunting, Bucklal was taken on many hunting expeditions. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and dresses like a well dressed Bellfounder does. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His brown hair is cut short. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Thorin was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He struck the Bellfounder job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 220 gp. Jasper (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. 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 got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Disease, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her tied-back hair is red. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Bookbinder. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Bookbinder but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Aline grew up listening to her mother's many stories. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Aline alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (160 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'4". He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and tan robe with the hood down, and his gloved hand is found clutching a glaive. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: Simon wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Commoner, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... The war was a terrible time for him, and Simon does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Simon lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 east. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Breastplate.