Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Gerard hails from a village terrorized by drow. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 70 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. His skin is dark but he possesses many green ritualistic tattoos. He wears a grey costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. He is baby faced.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This eastern woman wears a yellow armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her tied-back hair is chestnut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born to a Sage, her father struggled to pay the bills. Shanairla was born on a far eastern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Stableman. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This southern woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her rusty crest is still thick. She has red eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Selfish, Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a pastel armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. Her red fur, when down, is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Backpack.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She has a hunchback. Her golden hair is well kept. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: Menny was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and dwarven compassion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her hair is red and curly. She is baby faced.

Personality: Syllin hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Syllin hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her dark red hair is still thick. This white eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Joker, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 600 gp. Malachite (10 gp).

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His red crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are gold.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He bought a quarterstaff and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 3000 gp.