Description: This slender woman stands about 5'5". She wears a tan vest and prefers white and blue shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her hair is short and auburn. She is baby faced.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Ruler. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Ruler. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and balancing her hectic life and new ruler responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Military, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags. 5 Acid flasks.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and blue robe with the hood down. His tied-back hair is white. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Gardain embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2300 gp. Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 3'4" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. 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 Detective. She struck the Detective job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious, Job, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 2300 gp. Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Sard (50 gp). Sard (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Coral (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her gold crest is unkempt and raggedy. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Ruler hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man wears dark leathers with embroidery. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is silver and very short. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Skamos 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 became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 7000 sp. Red spinel (130 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the west were limited. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Skog fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Opinionated, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 12000 sp. Aquamarine (400 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has dyed his greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 400 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She carries a battered hammer and tarnished longsword as well. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. 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, Murgen is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 30 pp. Black pearl (1500 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.