Description: This malnourished woman wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. 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 raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He is wearing a tight yellow one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sais and crossbows. He wears his chestnut hair up. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Being a Architect kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 140 gp. Carnelian (80 gp).

Description: She wears a black coat over a pastel low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon her head. She is portly but not overly obese. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a Mortician first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Doudra was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She tends to her Mortician job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Job, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 90 pp. Zircon (70 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears baggy blue pantaloons and a black scarf. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She keeps her white hair in a flapper bob. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

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

Description: This man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His red hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. 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 became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She carries a battered shortbow and tarnished axe as well. She has wavy white hair. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Glassblower and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born into a rich family. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. 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: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender woman typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. Sporting a auburn mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. She has achieved small success as a Barrister.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 20000 cp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Standing 3'1", this woman is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Red spinel (110 gp). Amber (110 gp). Azurite (8 gp).