Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is dark but she possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). With bright brown hair. Her half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Quilla was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Flaws: Greedy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 10000 cp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. 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: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Paelias has worked very hard to control his curse. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 5000 sp. Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp).

Description: The light-skinned man stands 3'0" and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1600 gp. Onyx (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His black crest is braided into rings. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Bidreked was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Bidreked decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 230 gp. Amethyst (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp).

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his rapier with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and he perpetually has his rapier ready. His long cinnamon fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Beast was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Beast decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears a green tunic with black highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around his shoes. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has styled his bronze crest well, parting it to the left. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Kerkad was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Kerkad was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Bather they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Adventurer, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac, Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 43000 sp. Moonstone (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her silver hair is wavy and long. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

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. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Carpenter. She tends to her Carpenter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 gp. White opal (800 gp). Red garnet (160 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Emerald (800 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has wavy brown hair. Her white eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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: Astaro was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. 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: She seems to be bored by most things; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Mundane, Fearful, PTSD. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is dressed in an above average manner. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: Ronwe was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 800 gp.