Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the north were limited. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 800 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (400 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (400 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She is portly but not overly obese. She has moderate length auburn hair. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Tyna speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She wears a blue vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her blue boots flare out at the collars. With bright brown hair. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Lorilla embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Lorilla was born with her father's beautiful face. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 4000 gp. Brown-green garnet (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. His hair is black and curly. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Grom embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Orcs. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. 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. Grom fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 10000 cp. Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit men.

History: Tim was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bather for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has slicked back brown hair. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She got into the Spy business at a young age. Her childhood dream was to be a Adventurer, but she was a colossal failure. She tends to her Spy job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his brown robe. He wears a colorful flower in his copper crest. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. 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: Mreksh hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Mreksh was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1900 gp.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly kukris and scimitars. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker red hat.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Born to a Performer, her father struggled to pay the bills. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 700 gp. 3 Antitoxin. 3 Antitoxin. 1 Smokesticks. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His black hair is unkempt and raggedy. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Orc companion (his 'brother'). He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1000 sp.