Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. Her skin is light but she possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a very tight haircut. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. A friendly and beautiful Dwarf, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Gurdis was born the youngest of three triplets. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Backpack.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. The war was a terrible time for him, and Simon does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Simon lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Simon fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'2". He wears long strands of amethyst and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and his gloved hand is found clutching a greatsword. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Alvyn hails from a village terrorized by giants. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Alvyn alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Alvyn was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 2000 sp. Banded agate (4 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp).

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly longswords and nunchakus. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Gifted from a young age, Eldeth studied abroad. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1600 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp).

Description: An older man who typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor, he is not a threatening figure. His white fur is braided into rings. His yellow eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Great enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. After a long history of fighting, Great and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. After coming to the age of reason, Markosian took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and balancing her hectic life and new assassin responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Lazy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (500 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. Her fur, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. She has yellow eyes.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She is a Yochlol in disguise. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Blacksmith hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Emotional, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: He prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. He carries with him a set of nunchakus on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His hair is dark red, silky, and of moderate length. His half smiles and white eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Beggar business.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Terse, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Violet garnet (1200 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. His hair is short and brown. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Oppleby will drive conversation. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.