Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Tordrid was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her first spouse was a Bricklayer, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Tordrid never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Family, In love. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: An older woman who has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her green robe, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She uses divination through singing.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Shamil was born on a far southern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Jeweler. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To be a Layabout again; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1200 pp. Iolite (60 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Black opal (600 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Blue diamond (8000 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). White opal (600 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp).

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull yellow iron scale mail. She carries a battered trident and tarnished morningstar as well. She wears her chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. 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. After a long history of fighting, Menny and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she is content

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a pastel shirt, with a brown mid length shorts with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length yellow fur. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Flask has worked very hard to control his curse. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: An older woman who is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, she is not a threatening figure. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Greeba was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Herbalist. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and balancing her hectic life and new herbalist responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His brown hair is heavily combed to the left. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Skûn was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tabaxi companion (his 'brother'). He struck the Bricklayer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1800 pp. Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (40 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 gp. Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Malachite (13 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 4'11". She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and her gloved hand is found clutching a crossbow. She keeps her long black 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 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. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Traulam is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Merchant they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Bounty Hunter, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 90 pp. Alexandrite (900 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp).