Description: This man is tall and muscular. He tends to wear a large yellow jacket. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is a Locksmith first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Locksmith arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is typically in her Masseuse uniform. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Mella was born on a far southern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Masseuse. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Bonds: Job, Guardian, Criminal record, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 5000 cp. Iolite (50 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is an amazing painter.

History: Diggory lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 800 gp. Rock crystal (20 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp).

Description: She wears a tan collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Duvamil is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man wears dull blue sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed shortspear, just in case. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his left hand. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. After a long history of fighting, Aust and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 pp. Fire opal (600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Jet (80 gp). Jet (80 gp). Red garnet (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears just a pastel suit. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the south to a Bricklayer, Shivering learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and expand her business

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 300 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Silk rope.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her black hair is thinning but still full. She has blue eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Armorer born in the past three hundred years. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and expand her business

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 220 pp. Pink pearl (150 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Sard (60 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Iolite (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He wears a colorful flower in his auburn hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Tharivol speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His parents enrolled him in a Ranger school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. 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: Money/treasure; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is dressed in an above average manner. His crest is rusty and very short. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Bookbinder profession.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Brewer for hire.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. Aquamarine (400 gp). Peridot (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.