Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: The child of a Barrister, who enjoyed hunting, Theren was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. After a long history of fighting, Theren and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, and carries sais. He has moderate length black hair. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His childhood dream was to be a Sage, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Brewer soon after.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a green vest and prefers grey and blue shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her brown hair is singed and shortened. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Apothecary profession.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her childhood dream was to be a Apothecary, but she was a colossal failure. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Terse. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears long strands of topaz and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears his silver hair down. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 100 gp. Freshwater pearl (12 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp).

Description: A 3'10" eastern woman, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Therlin was born the youngest of three triplets. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Bonds: Religious, Slave, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and carries lances. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is her passion; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Religious, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 20000 cp. White opal (1200 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Zircon (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears her white hair down. She has silver eyes and a green hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Jezebeth liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She's also a talented Sailor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To be a Sailor again; and balancing her hectic life and new painter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1000 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (50 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized pastel coat. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has moderate length red fur. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. 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: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp).

Description: This eastern woman prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Falkrunn grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

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

Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 500 gp.