Description: This malnourished woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2200 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears white trousers with tan and blue striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. Amethyst (160 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Sard (30 gp).

Description: She wears a simple black robe with green stripes complete with hood. She carries a battered shortspear and tarnished halberd as well. Her blue crest is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. 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. Gilkass fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1100 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp).

Description: He is typically in his Barkeep uniform. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

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

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This man is very fat, and very much looks the part of a Barrister. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a Barrister first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Hupe hails from a village terrorized by drow. His childhood dream was to be a Crown-heir, but he was a colossal failure. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and balancing his hectic life and new barrister responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and grey handkerchief worn on his right side. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Gardener responsibilities is difficult; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her red hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born in the east. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Fortune-teller. She has achieved small success as a Fortune-teller.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Insomniac, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. He has no hair. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1100 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 prefers to wear blue clothing when he does not wear armor. His hair is short and black. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Laborer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Adventurer, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.