Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She is portly but not overly obese. Her scarlet crest, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Military, In love. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She got into the Layabout business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Layabout.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 140 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp).

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is a great chef.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Bounty Hunter mother left her crippled. Some 4 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Adelaide never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: In love, Slave. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Azurite (15 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Shepherd. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She got into the Shepherd business at a young age. She worked as a nervous Shepherd and found it very stressful. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aline fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She dresses like a well dressed Healer does. She is an epitome of beauty. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has worked as a Healer like her mother before her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing her hectic life and new healer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He stands about 6'1" and wears a black shirt, with a tan mid length shorts with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His crest is green and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Ghesh was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1900 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 6'4". She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and her gloved hand is found clutching a flail. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born in the north. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are green.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His first spouse was a Ruler, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 100 pp.