Description: He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. His brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with singing. He constantly tries to fill his life with singing. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Efferil was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Herbalist. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: Standing 3'3", this woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She sports red long hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: Tervaround hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her singing career. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born in the east. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She struck the Bookbinder job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Silver pearl (70 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a violet armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

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. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

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

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has a hunchback. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. Her amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 90 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has beige fur. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Left-Handed was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 150 pp. Tourmaline (100 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Sensitive, Ugly. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 30000 cp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His hair is cut close to his head. He has a dull look in his white eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Druid school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature scimitar.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

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

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Roofer responsibilities is difficult; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Debt, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. He has wavy golden hair. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He uses divination through singing.

History: Ernest was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents enrolled him in a Monk school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 700 gp.