Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears skinny pants and wears a white and yellow robe with the hood down, marred by teas. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Râsh took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up hammer and armor he uses now. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 5000 sp. Obsidian (5 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp).

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Shanairla and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 90 pp. Tourmaline (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He is baby faced.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Priest but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 900 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older woman who wears silk and lounges about seductively, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her white hair up. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

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 is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. 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: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Elven people; and half-elven compassion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 sp. Rose (50 gp).

Description: This southern man wears a blue shirt, with a yellow mid length shorts with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His clothes are grease stained in places. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful, Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'5" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a green coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon her head. Her hair is white and curly. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. A gifted student she started as a Herbalist, but she got bored and became a Fletcher. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Fletcher for hire.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 800 sp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs, and he perpetually has his kukri ready. He has dark red hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Valafar will drive conversation. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Valafar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Shepherd work with an outfit from a few towns over. Shepherd work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Valafar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1500 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp).

Description: 6'6" and muscular, this northern man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He keeps his copper crest in a flapper bob. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Gargax was born with his mother's beautiful face. After coming to the age of reason, Gargax took it upon himself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gargax fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His silver hair is braided into rings. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A gifted student he started as a Gardener, but he got bored and became a Butcher. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Banded agate (8 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Malachite (8 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.