Description: This man prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Roge was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Katherine was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Sailor. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Persistence, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her amber eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Robbie was raised in a hard working conservative environment. After coming to the age of reason, Robbie took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 330 gp. Sardonyx (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, blue cloak. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Alston is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a hand crossbow, but if one is not available she will default to her mace. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With wild silver hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. 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: Born in the west to a Miller, Marigold learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Marigold alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He works hard and plays hard.

History: The child of a Butcher, who enjoyed hunting, Snafû was taken on many hunting expeditions. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He bought a flail and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Slave, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Hematite (14 gp). Red spinel (160 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp).

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Five was born with her father's beautiful face. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Impulsive, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1900 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Theodoric was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears long strands of opal and short pastel dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His white fur is braided into rings. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 21000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.