Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars. She has wavy blonde hair. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born in the north to a Navigator, Ranala learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. 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 west. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 9000 gp. Jet (90 gp). Rich purple corundum (1200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Canary diamond (7000 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Sard (30 gp). Coral (90 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Jasper (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has a hunchback. With wild silver hair. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson white hat.

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 and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. 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 recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Onyx (20 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1600 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Sard (20 gp).

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and carries bastard swords. She sports silver long hair. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ridaro fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 800 pp. Banded agate (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). White opal (700 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her red hair is knotted and matted. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She got into the Junk Dealer business at a young age. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She's also a talented Architect, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 6000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Sard (30 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

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. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to be a gardener again

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 400 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her bronze crest is braided into rings. Her gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 7000 gp. Red garnet (150 gp). Rose (60 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His dark red hair is still thick. His fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (120 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp).