Description: 3'4" and muscular, this northern man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He got into the Bookbinder business at a young age. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, 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 worked as a Bookbinder like his mother before him.

Motivation: To be a Sailor again.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp).

Description: This man wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. His red crest is matted, messy, and big. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 140 pp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He prefers to wear flannel. He sports a flattop hair cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Addict. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 160 gp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'2" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears bulky white painted plate armor. He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Thar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To protect his home; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His scarlet crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Mreksh was born with his mother's beautiful face. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Insomniac, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Zircon (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Blue-white diamond (5000 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Jet (120 gp).

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, tan shirt, and green tie. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has a very tight haircut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. After a long history of fighting, Baern and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Chain shirt.