Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. 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 Dyer. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has no hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Superior lock. 1 Average lock. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His purple hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are silver.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A freak accident while working with his Guard father left him crippled. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, In love, Slave. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 900 gp. Solid gold idol (900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1300 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who is typically in her Map Maker uniform. Her white crest is still thick. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is a great chef.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by orcs. Daar was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Many orcs want her driven away.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and tends to wear a large yellow jacket. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She stands about 5'3" and wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. 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 was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Insomniac. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 50 gp. Iolite (70 gp).

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Simon grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Simon. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 30 pp.