Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a blue tunic with yellow highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around his shoes. His golden hair is still thick. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is content

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insane, Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 130 pp. Obsidian (15 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Jasper (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He got into the Slave Trader business at a young age. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has achieved small success as a Slave Trader.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. He is portly but not overly obese. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He became a Jeweler soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1900 gp. Banded agate (9 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Sard (20 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Amber (160 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a fancy black suit. His white hair is braided into rings. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He got into the Mercenary business at a young age. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears black trousers with pastel and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. His green eyes peer out from beneath his feathered black hat.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Blacksmith arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 500 gp. Violet garnet (800 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: This woman wears dark leathers with embroidery. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Roofer for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 90 pp. Sardonyx (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears tattered old clothes. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, In love. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1100 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His orange fur is long and unkept. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his 18th 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. He has a hunchback. He sports a flattop hair cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a Shoemaker first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A freak accident while working with his Tanner mother left him crippled. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Shoemaker for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is content

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (700 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Azurite (9 gp).