Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He worked as a nervous Masseuse and found it very stressful. He has worked as a Masseuse like his father before him.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Bonds: Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp).

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her green crest is greasy and uncared for. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born to a Dilettante, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Herbalist responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 15000 cp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: The child of a Weaver, who enjoyed hunting, Nelkin was taken on many hunting expeditions. In his 16th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. Amethyst (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this eastern woman is wearing a long, blue cloak. Her hair is short and blonde. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Arara was born the youngest of three triplets. 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 has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has wavy blonde hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of drow may trigger it at times.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Imsh was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. After coming to the age of reason, Imsh took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is typically in his Apothecary uniform, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has no hair. He is baby faced.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He got into the Apothecary business at a young age. He worked as a nervous Apothecary and found it very stressful. He struck the Apothecary job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 11000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His blue hair is knotted and matted. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Mamnen isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tiefling unity. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 45000 sp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Banded mail. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Oppleby isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Oppleby hails from a village terrorized by giants. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Oppleby grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Oppleby. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Oppleby was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 27000 cp.