Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She keeps her long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Buvvie embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Dyer business.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gifted student she started as a Hunter, but she got bored and became a Dyer. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Dyer.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new dyer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 10000 cp. Coral (150 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor. Her crest is gold and curly. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady red eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She bought a shortspear and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Family, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 12000 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is typically in his Guard uniform. His auburn hair is lengthy. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Lorm was raised in a hard working conservative environment. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has achieved small success as a Guard.

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 unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 900 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is white and curly. His eyes are white and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Elven companion (his 'brother'). Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Rimmon was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a long, yellow cloak. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Stableman. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield. 1 Full Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Full Plate.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Cook. He has moderate length white hair. His eyes are likewise white. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. The war was a terrible time for him, and Modean does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Modean was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Job, Military, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull green iron scale mail and is in decent physical shape. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Dabbledob wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Cleric, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... The war was a terrible time for him, and Dabbledob does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.