Description: This eastern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. His tied-back hair is red. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 600 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears a pastel costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His clothes are grease stained in places. His fur is cut close to his head. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Harvest was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Druid, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Druid in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

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

Possessions: 700 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (80 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (80 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (10 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A gifted student she started as a Cartwright, but she got bored and became a Stableman. She tends to her Stableman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Violet garnet (1100 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Sard (50 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Peridot (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His golden hair is knotted and matted. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

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. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 gp. Red garnet (90 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Blue sapphire (700 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Sard (70 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Jet (90 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Blue quartz (6 gp). Alexandrite (1200 gp). Jacinth (8000 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Azurite (6 gp). Coral (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she usually wears her grey robe and has her greatsword always slung over her shoulder, and is pretty ugly. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Born to a Farmer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her parents enrolled her in a Druid school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. 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 remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 9000 gp. A silver and pearl hairclip (70 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp).

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull white iron scale mail. His brown hair is cut short. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Eiravel is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To protect his home; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 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. 1 Minor magic item.