Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her ceremonial dagger, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. Her brown hair is lengthy. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Nyx speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nyx 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 north were limited. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature ceremonial dagger.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 34000 sp.

Description: He stands about 4'0" and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is short and chestnut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Thorin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mayor. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and balancing his hectic life and new mayor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Phelaia hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Phelaia was born on a far eastern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Server. After a long history of fighting, Phelaia and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is light but she possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. She dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with violet slacks. She has a very tight haircut. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Menny is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 10000 sp. Black opal (1200 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Amber (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her pickaxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length white hair. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 3'8" and muscular, this western man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

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

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Ploughman responsibilities is difficult; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. Sporting a blonde mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His face is scarred and worn.

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 a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: The child of a Mayor, who enjoyed hunting, Faran was taken on many hunting expeditions. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Military. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: This dark-skinned male likes to wear brown tank tops with tan pants. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Hubert enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A freak accident while working with his Tailor father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he is greedy

Flaws: Shy, Hedonist, Disease, Greedy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears green painted combat armor at almost all times and is in decent physical shape. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has red eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Stableman profession.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 7000 gp. Banded agate (16 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Black star sapphire (1600 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). White opal (1600 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Obsidian (16 gp).