Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His blue hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. His red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Barakas is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He got into the Sculptor business at a young age. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Gnomish companion (his 'brother'). He then took over the family business and is one of the better Sculptor for hire.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 gp. Black pearl (600 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Revenge; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. She is physically well-built. Her red hair is long and unkept. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 74. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Gifted from a young age, Callybon studied abroad. Her parents enrolled her in a Warrior school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and a strong sense of loyalty to dragonborn people

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Insane, Racist. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 500 gp. Peridot (20 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear grey clothing when she does not wear armor. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She wears her brown hair down. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Hadwisa grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Hadwisa. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy green crest. She wears an entirely green suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has a hunchback. Her green crest is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are red.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Obsidian (8 gp). Azurite (8 gp). Amber (70 gp). Fire opal (800 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull grey iron scale mail. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Born in the east to a Hunter, Burana learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her childhood dream was to be a Dyer, but she was a colossal failure. She tends to her Hunter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, In love, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 1400 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. Kelter is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Kelter liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 600 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp).