Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She is baby faced.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Nissa isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Butcher work with an outfit from a few towns over. Butcher work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She's also a talented Laborer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 50 gp. Chrysoberyl (150 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Elven companion (her 'brother'). She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his pickaxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is short and brown. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Stannor was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Jeweler. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 42000 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray 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 a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp).

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. She carries with her a set of hammers on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. She has done her best to style her yellow fur to look like a famous performer. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She uses divination through singing.

History: Serpent was born with her mother's beautiful face. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Moss agate (7 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a violet vest and prefers blue and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has moderate length white hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is dressed in an above average manner. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length gray fur. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2000 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp).