Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. With wild black hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Shoemaker born in the past three hundred years. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Shoemaker for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 9000 gp. Jet (80 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Rose (80 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Rose (80 gp). Black star sapphire (600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). White opal (600 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She keeps her long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Blacksmith. She became a Blacksmith soon after.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Blacksmith and was forced into it by her family; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 pp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (110 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (110 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (110 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His brown hair is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Black opal (800 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. His clothes are grease stained in places. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is an amazing painter.

History: Gifted from a young age, Eberdeb studied abroad. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1200 pp. Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).

Description: She wears long strands of opal and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She carries with her a set of clubs on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. She has moderate length black hair. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Disease, Emotional. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Amethyst (100 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Rose (70 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears dull black sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed quarterstaff, just in case. She has no hair. Her eyes are gold.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born to a Engraver, her father struggled to pay the bills. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Hunter. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 11000 gp. Moss agate (16 gp). Rose (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Star ruby (700 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She tends to wear a green poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her long silver crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 3000 gp. Solid gold idol (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.