Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has brown eyes and a blue hat with a red feather.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Vaina was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Monk, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Monk in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Halfling companion (her 'brother'). 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: To reunite with her old friends; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her spear with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is white and curly. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Joan was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she tends to wear a large black jacket. Her long black crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Arava 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 Arava. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To be a Mayor again; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

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. Fallond is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born to a Sailor, his father struggled to pay the bills. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Fletcher. He struck the Fletcher job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 140 gp. Sard (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He has green eyes.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Tûgog hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is short and brown. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

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. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Hoglik was born the youngest of three triplets. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Pacifist, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 300 gp. Rose (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'2". She wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and her gloved hand is found clutching a club. She has no hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

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. 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. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 350 gp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She carries a battered sai and tarnished shortbow as well. Her hair is blonde and very short. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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, Ilanis is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Ilanis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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. 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. Ilanis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 350 gp.