Description: He dresses like a well dressed Bricklayer does. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is silver and very short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bricklayer for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Forgetful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a red coat with white slacks. His blue hair is braided into rings. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his white eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Sammal liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has achieved small success as a Fisher.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She carries a battered ceremonial dagger and tarnished longsword as well. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Religious. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears an entirely yellow suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has shaved his head bald. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 gp. Chalcedony (20 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Pink pearl (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'3". He wears a fancy grey suit. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has achieved small success as a Scribe.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and sabotage a competitor

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Nature, Religious, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 3'3" and tends to wear a red poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His white hair is still thick. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Vlorn was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Vlorn decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Herbalist kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp).

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born in the north to a Beggar, Hadwisa learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She became a Beggar soon after.

Motivation: Expand her business; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Rock crystal (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Hematite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Dyer business.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Ivellios alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. 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: Doesn't want to be a Dyer and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Moss agate (4 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 simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her scythe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has wavy gray fur. Her yellow eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 110 gp.