Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. She is baby faced.

Personality: Joan is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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: Joan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has dyed his greying white fur a little too much giving a sharp white color. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He hates Tabaxis with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears baggy grey pantaloons and a blue scarf. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Body Guard profession.

History: He was born into a rich family. A gifted student he started as a Body Guard, but he got bored and became a Herbalist. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to be a body guard again

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 800 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a black coat with grey slacks. His long red fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Slave Trader. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Slave Trader responsibilities is difficult; and expand his business

Flaws: Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

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 head has been shaved. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Tyna was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Tyna decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tyna fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears her red hair down. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Tana grew up listening to her father's many stories. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 34000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his pastel robe, marred by teas. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a large red jacket. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Andry grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Andry. After a long history of fighting, Andry and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.