Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'11" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a fancy green dress. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are gold.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Akta was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. A gifted student she started as a Shoemaker, but she got bored and became a Seamstress. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has moderate length black fur. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Silent will drive conversation. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Silent liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears a pastel tunic with brown highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes, and he perpetually has his scythe ready. His red fur is singed and shortened. He has gleaming, smiling yellow eyes.

Personality: Spear 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. The war was a terrible time for him, and Spear does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When Spear reached his early adolescence his Tabaxi mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Igden was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He found a children's book about a Gnome Wizard who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears just a brown suit. He carries with him a set of sais on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He has moderate length lavender fur. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: Dagger was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Butcher and found it very stressful. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dagger fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: This man is very fat, and prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. He sports a flattop crest cut. He has red eyes.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Pandjed was born the youngest of three triplets. He was taken from his home at a very young age. After a long history of fighting, Pandjed and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her red hair, when down, is lengthy. Her skin is flawless and her gold eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Aym is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Aym lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Through the years after Diesa was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Diesa's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a large white jacket. Her head has been shaved. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 600 sp.