Description: This woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on her left hand. She has wavy blonde hair. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

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

History: She was born into a rich family. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Debt. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 32000 sp. Sardonyx (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a green shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her scarlet crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a simple blue robe with brown stripes complete with hood. She carries with her a set of morningstars, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Veloptima isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. The war was a terrible time for her, and Veloptima does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Veloptima fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Insomniac. Bonds: Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp).

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 wears tattered old clothes. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). Recently the stress of being a Bather has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 45000 sp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Breastplate.

Description: A 5'5" eastern man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. His hair is chestnut and curly. This green eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Paelias is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Good lock.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She keeps her long red crest kept up in a rat tail. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bather they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Courier, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp. Blue quartz (7 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Greedy. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1400 gp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp). Jade (110 gp). Obsidian (14 gp).