Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He keeps his brown hair in a pixie cut. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Nicholas was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Nicholas alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 4'11" and muscular, this western woman is wearing a long, tan cloak. Her hair is silver and curly. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Leshanna was born the youngest of three triplets. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Family, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1100 pp. Malachite (14 gp). Coral (80 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Black star sapphire (400 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Amber (80 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a fancy blue suit. His hair is red and very short. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2000 gp. Malachite (16 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Sard (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Blue sapphire (400 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: An older man who tends to wear a large brown jacket, he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his long orange fur kept up in a rat tail. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Seven alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it

Bonds: Job, Poor, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Server

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1600 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2100 gp). Silver ewer (30 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (160 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (160 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (160 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (160 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Military, In love. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 6000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'6" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her red crest is singed and shortened. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

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: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and dwarven compassion

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 800 pp. Violet garnet (1100 gp). Chrysoberyl (110 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Red garnet (110 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears professional attire. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Miller arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp).