Description: She dresses like a well dressed Server does. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has a very tight haircut. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Lia was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Lia decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Server

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 sp. White pearl (60 gp).

Description: He wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a crossbow, but if one is not available he will default to his greatsword. He carries a battered crossbow and tarnished greatsword as well. He has moderate length silver hair. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Bernard's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Optimist. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 3000 cp. Jasper (70 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her hair is short and blonde. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a Barber first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in the south to a Barber, Pearl learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barber.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, In love. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 900 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Puyet grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Deep green spinel (100 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Tourmaline (100 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Rose (30 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Obsidian (10 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman tends to wear a tan poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her auburn hair is well kept. She has hazel eyes and a tan hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 48000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To protect her home; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Guardian. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, and is pretty ugly. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is a Carpenter first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. To her fellows she 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: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Carpenter arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Pink pearl (50 gp).

Description: 5'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Theobald isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Theobald was born with his mother's beautiful face. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (90 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.