Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her white hair is singed and shortened. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Mardnab never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Insane. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. Onyx (80 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. His hair is brown and curly. He has red eyes and a black hat with a grey feather.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Modean was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She bought a rapier and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Hematite (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. His tied-back hair is red. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born in the west. A gifted student he started as a Merchant, but he got bored and became a Dilettante. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 170 pp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His fur, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. He has yellow eyes and a pastel hat with a green feather.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Art was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Scribe and was forced into it by his family.

Flaws: Addict, Secretive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She prefers to wear grey clothing when she does not wear armor. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. 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: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Flaws: Insomniac, Cynical, Fearful, Greedy. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 110 gp. Silver pearl (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, In love, Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.