Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His black hair is knotted and matted. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and revenge

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 900 gp. Sard (30 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Zircon (30 gp).

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His black crest is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He worked as a nervous Blacksmith and found it very stressful. Being a Blacksmith kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2300 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears bulky white painted plate armor. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Marshal profession.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Pacifist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jade (100 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'9" and muscular, this southern man wears a black vest and prefers brown and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Flak hails from a village terrorized by illithids. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Flak was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Moss agate (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears dull blue sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shield, just in case. Her chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She became a Slave Trader soon after.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp. Hematite (13 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'0" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Silaqui 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 Silaqui. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He is a husky man, who dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Nicholas embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Elves. Nicholas enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Through the years after Nicholas was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Nicholas's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.