Description: She is in excellent shape and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 12000 gp. Malachite (8 gp). Coral (100 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a violet cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. His hair is cut close to his head. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His childhood dream was to be a Painter, but he was a colossal failure. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to be a painter again

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and yellow handkerchief worn on her right side. Her head has been shaved. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

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

Possessions: 4000 gp. Tourmaline (120 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Amber (120 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). Jade (120 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp). White pearl (120 gp). Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Coral (120 gp). Zircon (80 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Moss agate (16 gp).

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Megged has worked very hard to control his curse. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Megged was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Revenge; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Religious, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 9000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He likes to wear tan tank tops with pastel pants. He is an epitome of beauty. He has wavy blonde hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Mindartis was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Cook responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 4000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears skinny pants and wears a black and yellow robe with the hood down, marred by sweets. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He is mildly Half-Orc supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Nature, Religious. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 pp. White pearl (120 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Amber (120 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Star ruby (1400 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp). White pearl (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears bulky green painted plate armor. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length brass crest. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Megren is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Dragonborns in Megren's homeland. Megren decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Megren fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 900 pp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (60 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.