Description: This dark-skinned male wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has moderate length black hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. 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: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane, Insomniac. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 6'6", this man has the majority of his body covered in plate. His fur is brown and curly. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Flask was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Through the years after Flask was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Flask's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He tends to his Dilettante job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Opinionated, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 8000 sp. Peridot (20 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Sard (20 gp). Amethyst (50 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Jade (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 11000 sp. Coral (100 gp).

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a red and tan handkerchief worn on his right side. He is portly but not overly obese. His white hair is thinning but still full. He has amber eyes and a red hat with a tan feather.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp).

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He is portly but not overly obese. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He takes great joy in being the best Glassblower in town.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Violet garnet (600 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he dresses like a well dressed Mortician does. His blonde hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

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 invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 140 gp. Amethyst (120 gp).

Description: This man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and sports empty pouches on his belt. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Darrak was raised in a hard working conservative environment. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His mother, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Sage for hire.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and balancing his hectic life and new sage responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born to a Laborer, his father struggled to pay the bills. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His mother, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. He struck the Mason job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Poor, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His blonde hair is greasy and uncared for. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Roondar wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Warrior, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... 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 south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.