Description: This slender man stands about 5'4". He wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. Anselm 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 left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Coral (120 gp). Rose (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Mayor does. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his bow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Gnomish activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Gnomish doctor. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mayor for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Depressed, Racist. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 500 pp. Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Tourmaline (130 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears blue robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a sickle, but if one is not available he will default to his glaive. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 5000 gp. Zircon (70 gp). Blue star sapphire (1500 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Malachite (13 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 3'6" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a long silver ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her violet eyes.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 6000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (50 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Tyna was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Family, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 12000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears bulky tan painted plate armor. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A gifted student he started as a Sailor, but he got bored and became a Layabout. He struck the Layabout job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and to be a sailor again

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Slave, Attractive. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1100 pp. Hematite (10 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp).