Description: He is lean but muscular and wears long strands of jet and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 4000 gp. Blue-white diamond (8000 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Rose (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Star ruby (1600 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Sard (30 gp). Amber (140 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Banded agate (14 gp). Onyx (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. With bright black hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. 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 western immigrants she idolized her mother. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Blue quartz (12 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). Iolite (50 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Carpenter does. She is physically well-built. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her first spouse was a Courier, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Courier; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Obsidian (6 gp). Star ruby (500 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Jet (110 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp).

Description: This southern woman is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, green shirt, and brown tie. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Pyntle was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she wants revenge against orcs

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 2000 gp. Iolite (30 gp). Jade (100 gp). Golden pearl (100 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Tourmaline (100 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Jet (100 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Black opal (1400 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Layabout they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Merchant, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 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.

Description: 6'2" and muscular, this northern woman tends to wear a large black jacket. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp).

Description: He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple yellow line shooting up and back down. He carries a battered kukri and tarnished shortspear as well. His tied-back hair is red. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. 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. Gilthur fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1100 pp. Banded agate (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp).