Description: He is a husky man, who wears a white vest and prefers tan and pastel shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His chestnut hair is cut short. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 8000 gp. Black star sapphire (800 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Rose (70 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a simple tan robe with violet stripes complete with hood. Her red hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and balancing her hectic life and new ploughman responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 200 gp. Obsidian (12 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He became a Mortician soon after.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: He is a Mayor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mayor for the past few years.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and balancing his hectic life and new mayor responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Nature, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 800 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Star ruby (400 gp). Coral (90 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Jade (90 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears silk and lounges about seductively and is in decent physical shape. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Ovak was born with her father's beautiful face. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Siffress grew up listening to her mother's many stories. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a black vest and prefers tan and pastel shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has gold eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Ruler arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her black crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Burana hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. 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: She was born at the edge of vast plains. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 700 sp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Bertram wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Ranger, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... A friendly and beautiful Halfling, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. 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. Bertram fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 gp.