Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small blue clips. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Debt. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Eye agate (6 gp). Coral (130 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a green costume with the symbols of death on his torso. He has done his best to style his gold crest to look like a famous performer. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born in a small desert village. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He bought a bow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 30 gp. 7 Acid flasks.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'8" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is red, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. She keeps her long black fur kept up in a rat tail. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was taken from her home at a very young age. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Pacifist, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. Her brass crest is singed and shortened. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Adventurer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Adventurer work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 60000 cp. Aquamarine (1400 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Duvamil was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Healer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Duvamil never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 47000 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a tight fitting violet shirt and pants. Her golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She is baby faced.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Syllin was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: To protect her home; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 2000 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). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the left. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving The war was a terrible time for him, and Halander does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Halander was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. When Halander reached his early adolescence his Halfling father 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. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 500 pp. Silver pearl (50 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Malachite (10 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Rose (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Rose (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears grey trousers with tan and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His hair is cut close to his head. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Gerard took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up flail and armor he uses now. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a simple green robe with black stripes complete with hood. Her crest is scarlet and very short. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Rezena was born with her father's beautiful face. While she appears to be a normal Dragonborn, 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. Being a Performer kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 pp. White opal (1600 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp).