Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a simple white robe with black stripes complete with hood. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born in the north. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ortegar 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 Ortegar. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: This woman wears a green tunic with brown highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has no crest. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 290 pp. Violet garnet (1200 gp). Jet (130 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a Architect first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. The war was a terrible time for him, and Ghûra does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When Ghûra reached his early adolescence his Half-Orc mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He has worked as a Architect like his mother before him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a spy again

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His brown hair is long and unkept. He has a dull look in his black eyes.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the south were limited. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Cook. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 900 pp. Sardonyx (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with green slacks. He has no hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady black eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His parents were killed by goblins in a raid when he was still a young child. The goblins captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by goblins. Ekemon was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the goblins.

Motivation: He wants revenge against goblins; and many goblins want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 4000 sp. Zircon (30 gp). Sard (30 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Rose (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'0" and muscular, this eastern woman is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She wears her chestnut hair up. Her half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Quelenna has worked very hard to control her curse. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Disguise kit. 1 Silk rope.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is dark but she possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. She wears suspenders and tan workpants. Her shirt is blue, and she wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. Her blonde hair is cut short. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She found a children's book about a Gnome Warlock who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1400 sp. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: He has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his red robe. His fur is orange and very short. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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 obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. A freak accident while working with his Herbalist mother left him crippled. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Tourmaline (130 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Coral (130 gp). Hematite (9 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. 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: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Justice, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.