Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. Her golden hair is lengthy. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Veloptima isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. In her 17th 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. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He hates Gnomes with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Aquamarine (600 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her long blonde hair reaches down to her waist. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Through the years after Kristryd was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Kristryd's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 10000 cp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a black coat with brown slacks. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He tends to his Slave Trader job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears a yellow coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Glassblower. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has worked as a Glassblower like his father before him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Job, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has slicked back red hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She has all her life been fascinated with dancing.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 100000 cp. Tourmaline (140 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man wears grey trousers with white and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his chestnut hair down. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. Gunter was born on a far western forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Jeweler. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (80 gp).