Description: This late middle aged woman is renowned for her bright grey dresses and hats and is in decent physical shape. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She found a children's book about a Dwarf Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Rock crystal (80 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Jade (110 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her fur is red and curly. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is a Shoemaker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She's also a talented Fisher, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and many brigands want her driven away

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 8000 gp. Moss agate (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Red spinel (110 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has wavy silver hair. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Ella isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a Fisher, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. After a long history of fighting, Ella and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 2000 gp. Moss agate (15 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Coral (100 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a black costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. His rusty crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Merchant. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to be a slave trader again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 500 pp. Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears grey trousers with green and yellow striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has white hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He is an amazing painter.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 11000 gp. Jade (150 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time and is in decent physical shape. His gold crest has been sun bleached extensively. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dragonborns.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. 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 granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and a strong sense of loyalty to tiefling people

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and brown handkerchief worn on his left side. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his lance, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. His hair is white and curly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He's in love; and he would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Religious, Family, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). White opal (1200 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Sard (30 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Jacinth (7000 gp).