Description: This northern man wears professional attire. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born in the north. Dondon was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Miller. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

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

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, brown shirt, and red tie, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'0" when asserting herself. With bright white hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: Nissa is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nissa grew up listening to her father's many stories. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Cook like her father before her.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a nunchaku, but if one is not available he will default to his mace. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his right hand. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. After a long history of fighting, Bathin and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears tattered old clothes. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has a hunchback. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Insane. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 90 pp. Red garnet (110 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor. Her auburn hair has been sun bleached extensively. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. 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 meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 2600 sp.

Description: She wears a fancy green dress, and she perpetually has her trident ready. Her crest is short and white. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born in a small plains village. In her 16th 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 a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gilkass fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a bow on her belt. She carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished bow as well. Her brown hair is smooth and relatively long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Masseuse hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 700 gp.