Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears black trousers with pastel and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 14th 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. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Mundane, Fearful. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 600 gp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the north to a Stylist, Nissa learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Stylist. She tends to her Stylist job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has a large violet mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe. Her chestnut hair is cut short. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she has a crush on the local baker

Flaws: Hedonist, Addict, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 400 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a fancy tan dress. She wears her silver hair up. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 19000 sp.

Description: He dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 300 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Kugáluga is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Priest

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2000 gp. Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Amber (100 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Citrine (30 gp). Coral (100 gp). Moss agate (8 gp).

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Namfoodle isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 4000 sp. Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man tends to wear a large brown jacket and is in decent physical shape. His hair is auburn and curly. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 800 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He tends to wear a large blue jacket. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Ploughman arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. 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: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Chalcedony (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.