Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears just a blue suit. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He found a children's book about a Gnome Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (120 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light yellow in addition to tight pants. He keeps his auburn hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Enialis was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Bather like his father before him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 600 gp. Moss agate (10 gp).

Description: This woman wears a worn and beaten armor. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her left hand. Her black hair is singed and shortened. She has amber eyes and a brown hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to protect her home

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 6000 cp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. She has brown eyes and a tan hat with a green feather.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Ulla embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. 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 several months after her mother was called into army service. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

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

Possessions: 100 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He carries with him a set of greataxes, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His beige fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His copper eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Shifting was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1000 gp. Eye agate (5 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Amber (70 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'8" when asserting himself. He has dyed his greying beige fur a little too much giving a sharp beige color. His yellow unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 500 pp.