Description: This man wears a grey Stetson hat and grey clothes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his right hand. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: Dain speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Dain hails from a village terrorized by goblins. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To protect his home; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies, Guardian. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She usually wears her brown robe and has her longbow always slung over her shoulder. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her tied-back hair is silver. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Emmeline fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she dresses like a well dressed Slave Trader does. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Urshar is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Urshar was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Slave Trader for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 6000 sp. Silver pearl (80 gp). Amethyst (80 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Eye agate (14 gp).

Description: She wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly hammers and quarterstaffs. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Maegan speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 150 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 gp. 3 Thunderstones. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: 4'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing. Her white hair is well kept. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Birel was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 14000 cp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Thodris studied abroad. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Thodris was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She is portly but not overly obese. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Mara has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Opinionated, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 3000 gp. Hematite (12 gp). Rich purple corundum (1100 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp).

Description: 2'10" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a simple red robe with green stripes complete with hood. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. This gray eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Pirithin embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Pirithin lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 gp.