Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a brown tunic with blue highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

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. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. Canary diamond (5000 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Violet garnet (900 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.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright violet and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born into a rich family. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1000 gp. Amethyst (160 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp). Red garnet (160 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp).

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears dull white sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed spear, just in case. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He has brown eyes and a white hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Mundane, Insomniac. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1900 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (4000 gp). A small bag of saffron. (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (50 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1900 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His hair is short and chestnut. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tiefling companion (his 'brother'). He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

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

Possessions: Star ruby (600 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Black star sapphire (600 gp). Alexandrite (1500 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Blue quartz (13 gp). Malachite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears suspenders and white workpants. Her shirt is violet, and she wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. In her youth she was a Cartwright, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. Some 8 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Myria never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: In love, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 8000 gp. Onyx (60 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp).

Description: She wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants, and she perpetually has her scythe ready. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Eloise is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Family, Slave. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 6000 gp. Rock crystal (60 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Rose (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Coral (70 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Blue diamond (7000 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her brown hair is singed and shortened. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Phelaia was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Weaver. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 gp. Chalcedony (60 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Onyx (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.