Description: He wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Alston fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Terse, Shy. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 600 gp. Pink pearl (150 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Rose (50 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a tan vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his tan boots flare out at the collars. His silver hair is singed and shortened. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'3" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Corkitron lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Simple lock. 1 Hourglass.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and is pretty ugly. His gold crest is heavily combed to the left. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of orcs may trigger it at times.

History: He was born into a rich family. He worked as a nervous Tailor and found it very stressful. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Rich, Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1600 gp. Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she usually wears her black robe and has her bastard sword always slung over her shoulder. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 60 gp.