Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her black crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 30 gp. Pink pearl (140 gp). 1 Silk rope.

Description: 3'3" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is typically in her Shipwright uniform. Her red hair is braided into rings. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Virra is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Virra was raised in a hard working conservative environment. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her greataxe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt and is in decent physical shape. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Tailor arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She tends to wear a large tan jacket. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 21. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Herbalist like her father before her.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Family, Military, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: Standing 3'2", this man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. He has silver hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 380 gp. Red-brown spinel (150 gp). White pearl (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. His head has been shaved. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Bookbinder but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

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. Through the years after Târz was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Târz's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. Obsidian (8 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length black fur. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to be a ploughman again

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 800 sp. Jade (130 gp).

Description: This woman wears a red shirt, with a white mid length skirt with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 60 gp. Coral (150 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with brown slacks. His crest is gold and curly. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 800 sp.