Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, tan shirt, and black tie, marred by sweets. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Vorka was born on a far eastern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Bricklayer. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 9000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his right hand. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 10000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a yellow coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has shaved his head bald. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Tanner for hire.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Military. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 6000 gp. Azurite (9 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, black shirt, and grey tie. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born in the south. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Nicholas never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 600 pp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). Blue diamond (7000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this northern woman dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with black slacks. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length white hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. 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 Barrister. She has worked as a Barrister like her father before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 11000 gp. Obsidian (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Amber (50 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Rose (80 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Azurite (8 gp).

Description: He wears blue trousers with white and red striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He carries with him a set of morningstars on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He has shaved his head bald. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, 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: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 9000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1000 gp). Tourmaline (100 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Sard (30 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 800 pp. Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.