Description: Standing 3'2", this man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Umpen isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born in a small desert village. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 200 gp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). White pearl (150 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Mella was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Mella's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'3" and prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Gardener. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to be a dyer again

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Rich, Family, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp).

Description: She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She keeps her long black fur kept up in a rat tail. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1100 gp. Lapis lazuli (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his blue robe. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Alexandrite (1300 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a white vest and prefers pastel and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He has all his life been fascinated with dancing.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He wears a colorful flower in his blonde hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. Vanuath enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He worked as a nervous Body Guard and found it very stressful. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Body Guard responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 210 gp.