Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. His red crest is unkempt and raggedy. He has red eyes.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Architect. He struck the Architect job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Hork was born with his mother's beautiful face. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her brown hair, when down, is lengthy. Her silver eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Lazy, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (8 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp).

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. Cumpen is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 380 gp. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He has red eyes.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Nithther never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp).

Description: This woman dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with grey slacks, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her red hair is matted, messy, and big. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Junk Dealer. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman has the majority of her body covered in plate and is in decent physical shape. With wild chestnut hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1900 gp.