Description: This eastern woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has moderate length white hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 4000 gp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Eye agate (4 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a blue costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He found a children's book about a Elf Cleric 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. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Rose (50 gp). Jade (130 gp).

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. His hair is short and red. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He 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. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1000 gp. Aquamarine (900 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). White pearl (50 gp).

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. His yellow fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Spring was born with his mother's beautiful face. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 2500 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp).

Description: A 6'2" southern man, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. His black hair is thinning but still full. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a Junk Dealer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He got into the Junk Dealer business at a young age. He 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. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortspear.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears his yellow fur down. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his broad brown hat.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Serpent was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Healer for the past few years.

Motivation: He is greedy; and half-elven compassion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Military, Rich, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 gp. Iolite (40 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Rose (40 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he usually wears his violet robe and has his scimitar always slung over his shoulder. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: He was born into a rich family. 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 Scribe. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Scribe for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new scribe responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1000 gp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (50 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (50 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (3000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears long strands of sapphire and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jane fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to protect her home

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her white hair is singed and shortened. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Mardnab never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Insane. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. Onyx (80 gp).