Description: This malnourished man tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Gubu hails from a village terrorized by illithids. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Gubu was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Flaws: Emotional, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and white robe with the hood down. His white hair is thinning but still full. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He stands about 3'6" and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His black hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Tailor. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Tailor business.

History: Born in the west to a Tailor, Bilbron learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a tight fitting violet shirt and pants. Her head has been shaved. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A freak accident while working with her Laborer father left her crippled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic, Mundane. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 10000 cp. Black pearl (1400 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 2300 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His black hair is braided into rings. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Masseuse. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His gold crest is smooth and relatively long. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 80000 cp.