Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered south to less war torn lands. He struck the Herbalist job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Herbalist responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This malnourished man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Seamstress father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His beige fur is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are copper.

Personality: Shifting hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Shifting fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 230 gp. 1 Buckler.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Spice Merchant father left him crippled. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, Disease. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1000 cp. Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: This dark-skinned female wears a yellow coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon her head. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her auburn hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Rinn reached her early adolescence her Half-Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Gnomes.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She bought a flail and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and gnomish compassion

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her club with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is blonde and very short. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Tana was born with her mother's beautiful face. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Tana has worked very hard to control her curse. She has achieved small success as a Dyer.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a white shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and blue pants and is in decent physical shape. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Knight arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 700 sp.