Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: Ovak is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 8 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Ovak never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 500 gp. Banded agate (16 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society and is in decent physical shape. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. 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: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. Being a Cartwright kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 500 gp. Banded agate (13 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his silver hair up. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He got into the Courier business at a young age. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He struck the Courier job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new courier responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears an entirely brown suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Ilde is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and regain custody of her daughter

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Disguise kit. 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: She wears professional attire. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Juliana was born with her mother's beautiful face. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Slave, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Black opal (1100 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has gleaming, smiling white eyes.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Gadreel hails from a village terrorized by goblins. At a young age her mother died while driving off some goblins. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in sickle use. 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: Gnomish compassion; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 37000 sp. Azurite (12 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears baggy tan pantaloons and a black scarf. His hair is blonde and very short. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Alston was born with his father's beautiful face. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and balancing his hectic life and new shoemaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: He is lean but muscular and tends to wear a large white jacket. His golden hair is thinning but still full. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 gp. Aquamarine (1500 gp). Banded agate (5 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned male wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. He is baby faced.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.