Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His black hair is singed and shortened. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 3000 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears green painted combat armor at almost all times and is in decent physical shape. His crest is black and curly. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born in the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the east were limited. After a long history of fighting, Valorean and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 2000 pp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the east. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 12000 gp. Chrysoberyl (160 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Coral (160 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has styled her golden hair well, parting it to the left. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Stableman arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 Stableman. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp).

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His chestnut hair is lengthy. He has brown eyes and a blue hat with a white feather.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Warryn isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Apothecary.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1000 gp. Black pearl (1500 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Amber (160 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Black opal (1300 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the right. His black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: This man wears long strands of ruby and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His crest is silver and very short. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. The war was a terrible time for him, and Medrash does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp).