Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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 born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She worked as a nervous Spy and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 3000 gp.

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a grey coat. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

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 Dwarf in existence. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has worked as a Marshal like his mother before him.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: In love, Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 8000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her tied-back hair is red. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. A true patriot, Vanchu would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Addict, Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 6000 gp. Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Sard (40 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Jade (80 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). Amber (80 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a tan small hat and tan clothes. She carries with her a set of bastard swords on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She has slicked back brown hair. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. A gifted student she started as a Barrister, but she got bored and became a Spy. She bought a bastard sword and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Nature, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 pp. A delicate brass dragon egg (50 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (50 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 6'5" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. Ea was born on a far eastern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Guard. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 4000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, marred by beers. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 600 pp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2100 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp). A small bag of saffron. (40 gp).

Description: 3'0" and muscular, this western woman wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a white coat. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. 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 barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Terse. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 4000 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.