Description: She wears bulky brown painted plate armor, and carries shortspears. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is a Interpreter first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Helja was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She's also a talented Miller, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Sard (60 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears silk and lounges about seductively. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane, Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker violet hat.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is an amazing painter.

History: Aline was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Nature, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Dilettante profession.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Miner arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His childhood dream was to be a Dilettante, but he was a colossal failure. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Miner responsibilities is difficult; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies, Guardian. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 8000 sp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp).

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his spear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

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 takes great joy in being the best Bellfounder in town.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has achieved small success as a Bellfounder.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a bookbinder again

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Emotional, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 600 gp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Rose (70 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). White pearl (110 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is dark but he possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His white hair is knotted and matted. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Wrenn lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Soapmaker they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Cook, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Pacifist, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family, Slave. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Stannor fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 pp. Obsidian (5 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). White pearl (110 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Amber (110 gp). Sard (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Jasper (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light yellow in addition to tight pants. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has blonde hair. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 17000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is dark but he possesses many red ritualistic tattoos. He wears a blue collared shirt and red pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 2 years.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to be a beggar again

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Chrysoprase (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp).