Description: This late middle aged woman wears dark leathers with embroidery and is in decent physical shape. Her black crest is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Seamstress but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She struck the Seamstress job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 9000 gp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'7" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His crest is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Silver ewer (50 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (50 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing a long, blue cloak. She has wavy silver hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Cumpen is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'5" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She prefers to wear flannel. She sports white long hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Interpreter and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 3'2" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fisher. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Jo hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to dire rats.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and many dire rats want her driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Jasper (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'1" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears professional attire. Her tied-back hair is silver. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a robe, a symbol of his god around his neck, and a pickaxe on his belt. His silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. This black 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. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her black hair is long and unkept. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She bought a sickle and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a fancy brown suit. His fur is lavender and curly. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 Spice Merchant. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and to be a sailor again

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.