Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and is pretty ugly. With wild auburn hair. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He typically wears violet cloth garments or leather armor. His red hair is braided into rings. His eyes are green.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Adam was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He bought a trident and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 4000 gp. Amethyst (80 gp). Amber (80 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (800 gp).

Description: She wears a grey Stetson hat and grey clothes. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. After coming to the age of reason, Kristryd took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 230 gp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a blue collared shirt and grey skirt. She accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. Pyntle enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Tana embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Animal Trainer

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

Possessions: 5000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (9000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1600 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shump 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 Shump. 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; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 3000 gp. Star rose quartz (80 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Banded agate (7 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. She has gray eyes and a blue hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Seamstress for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1300 sp.