Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her black hair is long and unkept. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She found a children's book about a Gnome Barbarian who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her silver hair is cut short. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Melissa was born with her mother's beautiful face. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Performer. She has worked as a Performer like her mother before her.

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 is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 gp. Rose (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. She is portly but not overly obese. Her silver crest is singed and shortened. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Pink pearl (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 600 pp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. She has chestnut hair. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: The child of a Bowyer, who enjoyed hunting, Oriel was taken on many hunting expeditions. When Oriel reached her early adolescence her Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Military, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 700 sp. Red garnet (100 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the right. 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 thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Gifted from a young age, Kipper studied abroad. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Kipper grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Kipper. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1800 sp. 1 Good lock.

Description: He wears a tan shirt, with a grey mid length shorts with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 500 gp.