Description: He wears a fancy red suit. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: The child of a Cartwright, who enjoyed hunting, Bucklal was taken on many hunting expeditions. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and dresses like a well dressed Bellfounder does. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His brown hair is cut short. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Thorin was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He struck the Bellfounder job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 220 gp. Jasper (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. 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. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Disease, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her tied-back hair is red. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Bookbinder. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Bookbinder but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Aline grew up listening to her mother's many stories. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Aline alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (160 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'4". He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and tan robe with the hood down, and his gloved hand is found clutching a glaive. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: Simon wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Commoner, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... The war was a terrible time for him, and Simon does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Simon lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 east. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She is dressed in an above average manner. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. After a long history of fighting, Lilli and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Slave Trader they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Seamstress, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 700 gp.