Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and black handkerchief worn on her left side. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Orla embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Through the years after Orla was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Orla's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears a brown tunic with tan highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has chestnut hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. He carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished longsword as well. His crest is brass and curly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He took after his mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his mother taught him to defend himself. When his mother died while fighting gnolls, the young Mugrunden began to lead the lost caravan. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mugrunden fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Guardian, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 400 pp. Azurite (16 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She is portly but not overly obese. Her auburn hair is still thick. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. 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: 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 divine abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family, Slave. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 160 pp. Coral (140 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man wears bulky black painted plate armor. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on his right hand. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. He has violet eyes and a black hat with a green feather.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Felgrat was born with his father's beautiful face. His parents enrolled him in a Warlock school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. 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 has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Attractive. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her fur is cut close to her head. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is a Roofer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Carter profession.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Carter again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 140 gp. Jet (60 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her quarterstaff with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the left. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She worked as a nervous Unemployed and found it very stressful. She tends to her Unemployed job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1700 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His first spouse was a Spice Merchant, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 20000 cp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears professional attire. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has shaved her head bald. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Bookbinder. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Bookbinder but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Oriel was born with her father's beautiful face. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. She became a Bookbinder soon after.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1 Bullseye lantern.