Description: He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His green crest is unkempt and raggedy. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. 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: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Guardian. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (50 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2500 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp).

Description: This woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her right hand. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Gunnloda was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 600 pp. Carnelian (70 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1500 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Black star sapphire (1500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a worn and beaten armor, he is not a threatening figure. His lavender fur is lengthy. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Left-Handed was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents enrolled him in a Druid school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 13000 gp. Aquamarine (500 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Golden pearl (110 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Malachite (15 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Frug was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: In love, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 10000 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (6000 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (70 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he prefers to wear flannel. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Percival lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (20 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (20 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (20 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (20 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (20 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 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: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He is physically well-built. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ar-Baruk fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Religious, Slave. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Jade (150 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). White opal (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Jet (150 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her silver hair is knotted and matted. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is a great chef.

History: Nalaed was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. A freak accident while working with her Apothecary father left her crippled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2000 pp. Onyx (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Jet (60 gp).