Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears tan trousers with black and red striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Shepherd but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He is content; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Mundane, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Knight arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 110 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the right. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born to a Bather, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 70 pp. Pink pearl (100 gp). Fire opal (400 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. He is portly but not overly obese. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 600 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (180 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. She has styled her blonde hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. In her 14th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 360 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). 2 Holy water.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a grey tunic with white highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around his shoes. His silver hair is long and unkept. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Travok was born the youngest of three triplets. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Banker they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Doctor, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 300 sp. 3 Antitoxin.