Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a rapier on her belt. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has a very tight haircut. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born in the north to a Sellsword, Emma learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Elves in Emma's homeland. Emma decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She carries a battered longbow and tarnished flail as well. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gray eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Banded agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has brown hair. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He became a Priest soon after.

Motivation: To be a Shoemaker again; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Fallond is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born to a Sailor, his father struggled to pay the bills. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Fletcher. He struck the Fletcher job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 140 gp. Sard (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He has green eyes.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Tûgog hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is short and brown. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. 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: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Hoglik was born the youngest of three triplets. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Pacifist, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 300 gp. Rose (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.