Description: This late middle aged man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants and is in decent physical shape. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Norsko alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her hair is short and chestnut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 69. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is an amazing painter.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She tends to her Ploughman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1200 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has black hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: She got into the Sculptor business at a young age. 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. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Panana never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a black cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born in a small island village. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Navigator; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Star ruby (700 gp). Hematite (16 gp).

Description: 6'10" and muscular, this northern man is dressed in an above average manner. He has moderate length white hair. His red eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker black hat.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Through the years after Andram was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Andram's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Andram and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears skinny pants and wears a black and white robe with the hood down. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His white hair is thinning but still full. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Miller arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and money/treasure

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze, marred by chocolates. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. He is baby faced.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born into a rich family. A freak accident while working with his Roofer mother left him crippled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (90 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (90 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (90 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he usually wears his black robe and has his lance always slung over his shoulder, and is pretty ugly. His crest is cut close to his head. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Blacksmith born in the past three hundred years. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1900 gp. Hematite (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). White opal (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.