Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She got into the Shoemaker business at a young age. A gifted student she started as a Fisher, but she got bored and became a Shoemaker. She has taken up work as a Shoemaker and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he dresses like a well dressed Bricklayer does. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born in a small desert village. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He struck the Bricklayer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 3000 sp. Amber (50 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp).

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'2" when asserting himself. He has shaved his head bald. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Pog isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Pog lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Pog was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Military, Family, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 9000 cp.

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. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Gifted from a young age, Abad studied abroad. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1000 gp. Rose (40 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has shaved her head bald. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. She worked as a nervous Sculptor and found it very stressful. She's also a talented Carter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and black handkerchief worn on his right side, and is pretty ugly. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Aramil was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 240 pp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (130 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears an entirely brown suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His fur is yellow and curly. He has yellow eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: Drifting hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Family, Slave, In love. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears an entirely red suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. Nelkin is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Sage and was forced into it by his family; and to reunite with his absent mother

Flaws: Insane, Cynical, PTSD. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'7" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She usually wears her violet robe and has her morningstar always slung over her shoulder. Her blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born to a Weaver, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Weaver again.

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2400 gp.