Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she tends to wear a large white jacket. She has wavy golden hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 200 gp. Carnelian (20 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Citrine (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has wavy black hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Percival was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He tends to his Beggar job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Thradal was born on a far southern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Seamstress. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is content; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Simple lock.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His head has been shaved. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Orryn was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Actor. 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: A deep hatred of dire rats; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 pp. Silver ewer (30 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (30 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge and is in decent physical shape. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Morkral hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His childhood dream was to be a Bellfounder, but he was a colossal failure. Being a Scribe kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and she perpetually has her scythe ready. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born to a Performer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her parents enrolled her in a Fighter school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Emmeline fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). Sard (30 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Amethyst (90 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Matilda lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Justice, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her greataxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Just what you see.