Description: This woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has wavy red hair. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She works hard and plays hard.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Human culture. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Norman alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Revenge; and human compassion

Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has moderate length red hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Hunter who has hired him part-time. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born in the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Barrister. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He wants to get laid.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 4000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp).

Description: This woman likes to wear black tank tops with brown skirt. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her gold crest is knotted and matted. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is portly but not overly obese. She has brown hair. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fletcher.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His hair is long and golden with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Stableman. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Military, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 gp. Moss agate (8 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'10" and is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her golden hair is lengthy. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her feathered grey hat.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Sellsword. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Sellsword responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has moderate length white hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Bune was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Bune 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 Bune. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Jade (160 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears long strands of jet and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His hair is short and black. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Einkil fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 100 pp. Clear bright green emerald (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.