Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears professional attire. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small tan clips. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. A friendly and beautiful Gnome, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Veloptima hails from a village terrorized by giants. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against giants.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 21000 cp. Malachite (14 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears tattered old clothes. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Beleth was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Secretive, Lazy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He prefers to wear flannel. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born into a rich family. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Umpen's homeland. Umpen decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. 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. Umpen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 5000 gp. Citrine (50 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Hematite (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His green crest is thinning but still full. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Dadalan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Dadalan hails from a village terrorized by orcs. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He hates drow. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Chay abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature quarterstaff.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 2000 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (180 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She uses divination through singing.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. At a young age her mother died while driving off some giants. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in pickaxe use. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Artin was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Revenge; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears an entirely grey suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Aline lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. At a young age her mother died while driving off some brigands. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in warhammer use. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Malachite (8 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His hair is chestnut and curly. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Religious, Guardian. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and sports empty pouches on his belt. His tied-back hair is auburn. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Korag was born with his mother's beautiful face. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He struck the Sage job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Sage responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Chalcedony (70 gp). Moss agate (8 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Peridot (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.