Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has a hunchback. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears dull pastel sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed quarterstaff, just in case. His white fur is still thick. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a Sage first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is an amazing painter.

History: Pelt hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is dressed in an above average manner. Her blonde hair is braided into rings. She has green eyes.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father 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 is wracked by social anxiety; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 5'9". She wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a quarterstaff on her belt, and her gloved hand is found clutching a quarterstaff. Her hair is short and red. Her skin is flawless and her violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Elven conditions. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vicky fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Dwarven people.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Justice. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears dull brown sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed rapier, just in case. She has a very tight haircut. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Through the years after Ahlyssa was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Ahlyssa's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 320 gp. 1 Average lock.

Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She carries with her a set of morningstars, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has no hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Guard but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears a grey broad hat and grey clothes, marred by beers. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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 feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 70 gp. Golden pearl (140 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp).