Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has done her best to style her brown fur to look like a famous performer. She has green eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 5000 gp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). White pearl (130 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Amber (130 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. 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 has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Coral (120 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). Blue star sapphire (1500 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Azurite (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Deep green spinel (120 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'4". He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His head has been shaved. His ears are large.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Layabout they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Detective, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1000 pp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 12000 gp. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older woman who tends to wear a large grey jacket, she is not a threatening figure. Her white hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her broad grey hat.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Spice Merchant. The war was a terrible time for her, and Cecily does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. 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 Spice Merchant. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Shoemaker again; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (3000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp).

Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with tan colored cloaks and clothing. He carries with him a set of monstrous two handed axes on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Mortician who has hired him part-time. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: He's in love; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (60 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (150 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (150 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (60 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (60 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has shaved his head bald. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His first spouse was a Tanner, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Justice, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). White opal (1000 gp). Iolite (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.