Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 40. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born in the south. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She wears a simple white robe with blue stripes complete with hood. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her blonde hair is braided into rings. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. She worked as a nervous Cartwright and found it very stressful. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: This woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. She has brown eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is a great chef.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Sard (30 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a brown scarf. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a kukri on his belt. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He got into the Dilettante business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Baker, but he was a colossal failure. He tends to his Dilettante job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 130 pp. Old masterpiece painting (2100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her red crest is heavily combed to the right. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. In her 14th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Chrysoberyl (50 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'1" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair is red and curly. 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 hates Tieflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Mantus lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Tanner. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 900 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (180 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (70 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (180 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp).