Description: He wears brown trousers with blue and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His red hair is thinning but still full. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. A true patriot, Richard would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Richard was born with his mother's beautiful face. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Richard was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1200 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp).

Description: This eastern woman wears a tan shirt, with a brown mid length skirt with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has no hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. While she appears to be a normal Elf, 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 remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Iolite (60 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). 1 Tanglefoot bags. 4 Thunderstones. 2 Smokesticks.

Description: This younger middle-aged man prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Bonds: In love, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 2000 sp. Violet garnet (400 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Carnelian (60 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She carries with her a set of hammers, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is an amazing painter.

History: Gifted from a young age, Maynild studied abroad. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered east to less war torn lands. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 100 gp. Amethyst (60 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His head has been shaved. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Solomon was born the youngest of three triplets. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and revenge

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 380 gp. Tourmaline (100 gp). Jet (100 gp). Zircon (20 gp).

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Peren will drive conversation. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. Banded agate (8 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.