Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is dark but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He prefers to wear flannel. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

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. His parents enrolled him in a Druid school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Solid gold idol (700 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (140 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. He has auburn hair. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A freak accident while working with his Shipwright father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's in love

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1300 pp. Aquamarine (800 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Blue diamond (4000 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has no hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 6000 gp. Pink pearl (40 gp). Amber (40 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Rose (30 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Jet (40 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears baggy blue pantaloons and a white scarf. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Lilli abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Selfish. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 12000 gp. Red-brown spinel (120 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp).

Description: He likes to wear black tank tops with white pants. He is portly but not overly obese. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 8000 gp. Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Silver pearl (100 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Black opal (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'2" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with brown slacks. His hair is long and golden with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Mercenary profession.

History: Zaffrab was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has worked as a Sellsword like his mother before him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

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

Possessions: 8000 gp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (80 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the north to a Stylist, Jane learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Stylist.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and balancing her hectic life and new stylist responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Hedonist, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 8000 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Coral (150 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Black pearl (600 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Jasper (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.