Description: This exceptionally lanky man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Erky was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Erky decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears just a blue suit, and is pretty ugly. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her parents were killed by goblins in a raid when she was still a young child. The goblins captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and she desires to right it.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Racist. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1200 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her grey robe. Her white hair is braided into rings. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Jo was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to reunite with her absent father

Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 12000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He very much looks the part of a Mercenary. His hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. His silver eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker black hat.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He struck the Mercenary job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. His black fur is smooth and relatively long. His yellow eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gifted student he started as a Miner, but he got bored and became a Brewer. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Brewer.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Coral (160 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Citrine (40 gp).