Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her bronze crest is heavily combed to the left. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mishann grew up listening to her father's many stories. Mishann abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: She wears a brown tunic with black highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around her shoes. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longswords and crossbows. Her fur is lavender and curly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Family, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has no hair. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 130 gp. Bloodstone (50 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She keeps her long red crest kept up in a rat tail. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Jeweler business.

History: She was born into a rich family. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. After a long history of fighting, Megren and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., he is not a threatening figure. He has wavy silver hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and revenge

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 390 gp. Onyx (70 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler.